Thanks, Rowdy,
We have an application in to the Wellcome which, if successful, would
among other things enable us to catalogue and make available the
Harold Bridger archives, which would be of real use and interest
right across the therapeutic community spectrum. That's archives,
however. Finding support for cataloguing libraries is proving less easy.
The KTP programme looks to me as if it excludes a charity of this
kind, if only on the Catch-22 principle: If we had the money required
to meet our side of the attendant costs, we could afford to apply for
a grant; but we don't have that money. I will go through the KTP
web-site material again - the fact that the Arts and Humanities
Research Council has joined the programme gives it a slightly less
technical/engineering/science-crunching dimension than it used to
have; but the annual report and the video and so on still make it
look like something which is heavily focused on profit-making
enterprises of the world-market-competitive kind, e.g., engineering
and applied sciences and mathematics, including medicine. What is the
partnership with the Forth Valley Health Board aiming to achieve?
Therapeutic communities don't readily or easily fall into usual
slots, and an archive and study centre devoted to therapeutic
community seems to have even fewer slots to fall into,
grant-seeking-wise. I really think that much that could be achieved
will only be achieved through the devotion of people who feel an
ownership of therapeutic community, and have the vision to realise
that a resource such as that growing here - the Archives and the
Research Library - is fundamental to the long-term stability and
strength of the work that therapeutic communities do. In the long
term that will equate with funds coming in to support the work, at
something like a useful level. But in the pioneering stage - which we
are still very much in - it takes belief and the kind of commitment
that pioneering efforts do. There is no other Archive and Study
Centre in the world devoted to therapeutic community. There is no
other place in the world where you will find the publications
gathered here or records such as we hold - and yet we are only
scratching the surface. You could build a place like this in every
major therapeutic community country in the world and still have work to do.
But the time of a few volunteers could make a radical difference, at
least here, and now.
best,
Craig
At 12:27 06/02/2007, you wrote:
>Craig
>
>Just a thought. I wrote to you some time ago "off list" about the
>Wellcome Trust's history of medicine grants. I'm wondering whether
>this could be incorporated into a bid to that source.
>
>One other thought. It might be worth exploring whether universities
>in your area are linked into the Knowledge Transfer Partnership
>system funded by the DTI:
>
><http://www.ktponline.org.uk/>http://www.ktponline.org.uk/
>
>That scheme aims to create links between universities and the
>business community (funding a PhD student for up to 3
>years). Recently, I notice that many of the partnerships are with
>health boards, charities etc. In fact we're working on one with
>Forth Valley Health Board at the moment.
>
>Hope this might help - but I'm sure others will have other ideas.
>
>
>
>Rowdy Yates
>Senior Research Fellow
>Scottish Addiction Studies
>Department of Applied Social Science
>University of Stirling
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Therapeutic Communities on behalf of Craig Fees
>Sent: Tue 2/6/2007 12:13 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Volunteers needed
>
>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]
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