Therafields

Grant Goodbrand

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?At one point in the 1970s, 900 people were engaged with a therapeutic community in Toronto. Living together, and sharing emotional problems, the participants helped to create an institution owning houses, farms, and buildings. Therafields, the largest urban commune in Canada, was created by Lea Hindley-Smith, a woman from England with no formal training in therapy. But she exuded an astounding charisma, and developed ardent followers. Initially, students and faculty from St. Michael s College, University of Toronto, were drawn to her, and gradually the word spread that

Sujets

• Philosophie et théologie
• Memoir
• Psychology

Informations

• Publié par: Ecw Press
• Date de parution: 01 octobre 2010
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781554909766
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 8 Mo

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Goodbrand, Grant Therafields : the rise and fall of Lea Hindley-Smith’s psychoanalytic commune / Grant Goodbrand.

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. Goodbrand, Grant.. Hindley-Smith, Lea,– .. Therafields Foundation—History.. Therapeutic communities—Ontario—Toronto— History.. Psychotherapists—Ontario—Toronto—Biography.. Title.

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Editor: Kevin Connolly Jacket and text design: Gordon Robertson Jacket images: Andrew Phillips

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The publication ofTherafields: The Rise and Fall of Lea Hindley-Smith’s Psychoanalytic Communehas been generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts which last year invested $.million in writing and publishing throughout Canada, by the Ontario Arts Council, by the Government of Ontario through Ontario Book Publishing Tax Credit, by the OMDC Book Fund, an initiative of the Ontario Media Development Corporation, and by the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund.

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For my wife Marion and my doctor Jeffrey H. Lipton whose mindfulness and caring made it possible for me to write this book.

“If a nation defines itself by the history it chooses to remember, then thes will continue to shape events, while the subsequent period seems almost irrelevant.”

—  Decade of Nightmares: The End of the Sixties and the Making of Eighties America

Introduction

 Creating Charisma

  Groups

 Three Streams

 The Honeymoon

 The Farm

 Lea’s Makeover

 Confrontation

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