Marc Galanter
...a definitive work on one of the key models for addiction treatment...The book provides readers on all levels of experience with an understanding of what takes place in therapeutic communities, and how they themselves can play a role in the TC setting. (Marc Galanter, MD, NYU School of Medicine)
Barry Brown
...an essential addition to any bookshelf of drug abuse treatment. In detailing the history, conceptual framework and practice of the therapeutic community, Dr. De Leon achieves the rare distinction of producing a highly readable resource volume...the most comprehensive description and analysis available of a treatment form whose influence has pervaded the whole drug abuse treatment. (Barry Brown, PhD, Former Chief, Services Research Branch, NIDA)
From the Publisher
The Therapeutic Community is an essential addition to any bookshelf of drug abuse treatment. In detailing the history, conceptual framework and practice of the therapeutic community, Dr. De Leon achieves the rare distinction of producing a highly readable resource volume. The reader can be assured of obtaining the most comprehensive description and analysis available of a treatment form whose influence has pervaded the whole of drug abuse treatment."Barry Brown, PhD, Former Chief Services Research Branch, National Institute of Drug Abuse
Dr. De Leon has written a definitive work on one of the key models for addiction treatment. He draws on a generation of his own clinical and research experience, and on a comprehensive review of the available literature. The book provides readers on all levels of experience with an understanding of what takes place in therapeutic communities, and how they themselves can play a role in the TC setting."Marc Galanter, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Director of the Division of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, New York University School of Medicine
This is a wonderful book. It is the most comprehensive treatise on the thearapeutic communitites to date, clarifying the rationale for the policies and practices that often appear mysterious to those working in other arenas. It is thorough enough to serve as the basis for an operations manual for those who work in therapeutic communities, and general enough to illuminate important issues for thsoe working in TC's other areas of the addiction field, and related fields. Dr. De Leon has synthesized decades of clinical experience and research to produce the definitive textbook."Joan Ellen Zweben, PhD, Executive Director, Founder, 14th Street Clinic & East Bay Community Recovery Project, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco