The Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre has an
enormous reservoir of important, exciting, and useful material which
we can not make available to the therapeutic community world or the
general public, because it has simply not been catalogued.
I am currently moving 25 boxes of books which belonged to the late
Dr. Susan Brinkworth, and finding all sorts of things - her copy of
Otto Kernberg's "Object Relations Theory and Clinical
Psycho-Analysis", which she has marked up; a Spiderman comic from
1987 specially produced in cooperation with the National Committee
for Prevention of Child Abuse; The Beano from October 8th, 1983
(why?); a 1979 book of photographs called "Ward 81" taken in a
women's psychiatric ward; a 1977 book called "Borderline Personality
Disorders: The Concept, the Syndrome, the Patient" edited by Peter
Harcollis (one of a bunch of books on personality disorders); Bruno
Bettelheim's "The Uses of Enchantment. In short, a rich and varied
library of a clearly remarkable woman (we also have her PhD thesis),
which ought to be out there being used by people, but which is shut
up in cardboard boxes.
The P.E.T.T. is a small charity, and as things stand doesn't have the
resources to pay for the cataloguing. As far as I can tell, there
aren't any grants out there for libraries of our kind (or for many
libraries at all, for that matter). If we are going to be able to
make this collection of books available, we are going to need help.
Can you help?
The P.E.T.T. has said in the past that it would make it possible for
people to help with the Archive and Library collections, for example
by making its accommodation available at a reduced rate or
potentially even without charge, depending on circumstances. The
Archive is situated in the country, at the foot of the Cotswolds,
surrounded by beautiful walks and country pubs, among other things.
Individuals or groups can make substantial contributions to the
resources we are able to provide, and the work we are able to do,
simply by giving of their time; and by combining that with a long
weekend or holiday, can add to the wealth of the therapeutic
community enterprise, while growing and enjoying themselves.
Craig
Dr. Craig Fees
Planned Environment Therapy Trust Archive and Study Centre
Church Lane
Toddington
near Cheltenham
Glos. GL54 5DQ
United Kingdom
Phone/fax 01242 620125
Email: [log in to unmask]
http://www.pettarchiv.org.uk
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