`Nick Manning has produced an excellent book which puts the therapeutic community movement into a much clearer perspective. He charts the origins and subsequent developent of the movement, using modern social theories.' - Nursing Times

• Chapter 1 The origins of the therapeutic community; Chapter 2 The growth and spread of therapeutic communities; Chapter 3 Social theory and the therapeutic community; Chapter 4 The therapeutic community at Belmont; Chapter 5 The therapeutic community in Australia; Chapter 6 Towards a sociology of the therapeutic community;