# A Life Well Lived

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- Authors: [Dennie Briggs](https://www.bookquiver.com/dennie-briggs)
- Publisher: jessica_kingsley_publishers
- ISBN: 978-18-4310-740-8
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2002-11-30
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Beginning with their first meeting in 1956 and ending with Maxwell Jones' death in 1990, A Life Well Lived follows the growth of a friendship between two key figures in social psychiatry and tracks the evolution of therapeutic communities from their experimental beginnings to the established practices that exist today. As a close friend and frequent collaborator, Briggs is able to recount in detail Jones' revolutionary work in mental hospitals, prisons, communities and schools, and offers a rare and engaging insight into the mind of one of the most important pioneers in the therapeutic community field.