
Creating Sanctuary
Toward the Evolution of Sane Societies
Sandra L. Bloom(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 23. October 1997
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-0-415-91568-7 (ISBN)
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Description
Creating Sanctuary makes some broadly challenging statements about human nature and social organization. Dr. Sandra Bloom interweaves the individual and the social, the personal and the political, with the story of how she and a group of friends and colleagues created a traditional psychiatric milieu based on social psychiatry principles. Bloom and her colleagues have come to believe that unresolved, multi-generational, often forgotten trauma leads to a compulsion to repeat that is a powerful force in individual and social history. Because of this unresolved legacy of trauma, all of our social systems are "trauma-organized," producing institutions which are unresponsive to and often directly counter to human needs.
Creating Sanctuary presents the thesis that effective social reconstruction is only effective if we understand the biological, psychological, social, and moral legacy of trauma.
Creating Sanctuary presents the thesis that effective social reconstruction is only effective if we understand the biological, psychological, social, and moral legacy of trauma.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
544 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-91568-7 (9780415915687)
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Person
Dr. Sandra Bloom is the Executive Director of the Sanctuary at Friends Hospital in Philadelphia and President of the Alliance for Creative Development. She has worked in inpatient psychiatric settings for thirty years.