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"Therapeutic Living with Other People's Children: An oral history of residential therapeutic child care, c.1930 - c.1980"

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LIBRARY

ORAL HISTORY

INFORMATION and PUBLICATION SERVICES

• A guide to the Archive holdings
  
  
• In Progress: Partial list of collections with links to catalogues, and thence to material from the archives which is available on-line
  

• Therapeutic Communities and Environments Theses and Dissertations Project
  
  Dissertations held in the Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre Research Library, with links to those which are available online as part of the Archive and Study Centre's publication and public access service.
  
  If you have an essay, thesis or dissertation relating to therapeutic environments and therapeutic community which you would like others to be able to see and learn from, either in the Research Library and/or Online, please contact the Research Library - ResearchLibrary@pettarchiv.org.uk



• Papers from Making All the Difference: A Therapeutic Community Approach to Residential and Community Care, the March 2009 conference of Carlow College and the Masters in Therapeutic Child Care Course.
  Papers by John Whitwell, Linnet McMahon, and Deborah Best
  

• See also: Therapeutic Community Sources: An online therapeutic community library , which includes a list of books in the Research Library relating specifically to therapeutic community
  
• Collection: The Hutchinson Settlement Library
  A list of typescripts, Offprints, Articles, Monographs, Brochures, Magazines and Journals now in the Research Library, originally from the Library of the Hutchinson Settlement, which was founded by Dr. Josephine Lomax-Simpson in 1977.



• Collection: The Library of Dr. Susan Brinkworth
  List (Gift, 2005).

• The oral history programme
  
  
• Copyright information and interviewee's agreement form
  
  
• Transcripts On-Line
  
  
• Recordings on-line

  including:
  Dr. David Clark
  "The Early Days of the A.T.C."
  The 1999 Peter van der Linden Lecture
  (138 Mb Video)

• Our (old) Newsletter
  
  
• The Joint Newsletter (of the Association of Therapeutic Communities, Charterhouse Group of Therapeutic Communities, and Planned Environment Therapy Trust ) Issue 1 (2001) to Issue 12 (2004) in Adobe pdf format.
  
  
• Our Survey of people, places, and organisations involved in the work
  
  
• Our Bibliographical Project
  
  
• Centre Publications
  
  

See:

• MAXWELL JONES AND HIS WORK IN THE THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY
  by STIJN VANDEVELDE
  
  (original title in Dutch:
  De Studie van Maxwell Jones en Zijn Werk in de Therapeutische Gemeenschap)
  
  
  
• SIXTY YEARS OF SOCIAL PSYCHIATRY, 1945-2005
  by DAVID CLARK
  
  
• LEARNING TO LIVE: SOCIAL LEARNING IN PRACTICE
  Occasional papers by DENNIE BRIGGS
  
  
• David H. Clark, THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY MEMORIES: How we learned to operate Therapeutic Communities
  
  
• David H. Clark, THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY MEMORIES: Maxwell Jones
  
  
• David H. Clark, THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY MEMORIES: The Fulbourn Hospital Doctors' Meeting

Archivist:

Dr. Craig Fees, RMARA

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