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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
  

• A guide to the Library holdings
  
  
• Catalogue
  (Therapeutic Community Sources: An online therapeutic community library includes a list of books in the Research Library relating specifically to therapeutic community)
  
  
• Therapeutic Communities and Environments Theses and Dissertations Project
  
  A list of 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
  
  
  
• Hutchinson Settlement Library
  Typescripts, Offprints, Articles, Monographs, Brochures, Magazines and Journals from the Library of the Hutchinson Settlement, founded by Dr. Josephine Lomax-Simpson in 1977.



• Books from the Library of Dr. Susan Brinkworth
  (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
  
  
• Staff Publications

NEW

• 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

Links:

Public Record Office

A2A :
Database with over 4.35 million catalogue entries from 318 archives repositories in England.

The Wellcome Library for the History of Medicine

Link:

British Library Sound Archive, Oral History Department

The Oral History Society

Association of Therapeutic Communities

PLANNED ENVIRONMENT THERAPY TRUST

Charterhouse Group

Therapeutic Community Open Forum

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