Asylum to Action Format:Trade Paperback Many teenagers with Asperger's Syndrome

Many teenagers with Asperger's Syndrome leave school feeling unsure of how to take the next steps in their lives

dreams and symbolic language

Drawing on their own extensive experience

self-confidence and self-awareness - through active participation and discussion in pairs or groups

Asylum to Action Format:Trade Paperback Many teenagers with Asperger's SyndromeAsylum to Action offers an alternative history of a libertarian therapeutic community at Paddington Day Hospital in West London in the 1970s. Helen Spandler recaptures the radical aspirations, as well as the conflicts, of the early therapeutic community movement, radical psychiatry and the patients' movement. The author's account of the formation of the Mental Patients' Union, the first politicised psychiatric survivors group in the UK, raises