Sanctuary is not simply a physical place of safety. It is a state of mind. Since its foundation in 1970, the Arbours Association has been providing sanctuary for people in great emotional turmoil, without their having to be seen, called or treated as "mentally ill'. It has grown to include three residential Communities, a Crisis Centre, a Psychotherapy Service and a Psychotherapy Training Programme. This collection commemorates 25 years of work of the Arbours. It includes historical accounts and reflections by therapists, students and residents about this highly original approach to providing refuge within specialised Therapeutic Communities for people in severe distress.
The Arbours has often intervened on behalf of the most disturbed, the most chaotic, the most self-destructive individuals. They are often labelled 'borderline' or ' psychotic' in conventional psychiatric classifications, people who other psychotherapists and facilities would not approach psychotherapeutically. One of the most striking features of this book is the detailed description of the individual, group and institutional dynamics that provide the foundation of the Arbours' practical and theoretical accomplishments.
The distinguished psychoanalyst, Dr. Nina Coltart, who contributed the concluding chapter, wrote, 'I continue to observe the growth of Arbours with great admiration. They built a thorough analytic training for their students, created a low fee clinic for patients, established and nurtured their community houses, ran the Crisis Centre and earned themselves a unique and respected place on the London therapy scene'. Pb: £16.00

EVEN PARANOIDS HAVE ENEMIES: New Perspectives on Paranoia and Persecution.
Berke, J. H., Pierides, S., Sabbadini, A., Schneider, S.

'Even Paranoids Have Enemies' is the reply Golda Meir is said to have made to Henry Kissinger who, during the 1973 Sinai talks, accused her of being paranoid for hesitating to grant further concessions to the Arabs. It is used as part of the title of this book to highlight the complex relationship between paranoia and persecution.
The politics of the Middle East, racism, the pressures within Japanese society, the dynamics of the drug scene and the effects of mechanical thinking in individuals and cultures are some of the examples used to illustrate the intimate connections between paranoia and persecution.
Contributors to the book examine the ways in which paranoia and persecution are experienced at the individual, institutional and macrosocial level. They draw on theoretical perspectives from a range of disciplines to discuss not only the psychological impact of paranoid and persecutory processes, but also the extent to which these processes are rooted in political and cultural exigency. Pb: £16.00