Helen Spandler

Helen works as a Research Fellow in the Department of Social Work at the University of Central Lancashire. She has worked for a number of mental health organisations, including 42nd Street, where she researched and wrote Who’s Hurting Who? (42nd Street 1996). She also recently wrote Asylum to Action: Paddington Day Hospital, Therapeutic Communities and Beyond (JKP, 2006) a book about the history of a libertarian therapeutic community.