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The Arbours Association Archive

Catalogue reference: ARBOURS

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This record is about the The Arbours Association Archive dating from 1970 - 2005.

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Reference
ARBOURS
Title
The Arbours Association Archive
Date
1970 - 2005
Description

Papers of the Arbours Association including administrative papers, selected journals and materials relating to the Crisis Centre.

Held by
Planned Environment Therapy Archive and Special Collections including the National Childcare Library
Former department reference
SA/ARB
Language
ENG
Creator(s)
The Arbours Association
Physical description
141 boxes
Access conditions

MIXED

Physical condition
Paper, photographs, journals
Unpublished finding aids
Available on request
Administrative / biographical background

The Arbours Association is a therapeutic community and organisation operating in North London. It was established in 1970 by Dr Joseph Berke and Morton Schatzman in Muswell Hill, the name drawing on the Hebrew text 'and he shall build arbours over them'. Through establishing a therapeutic community in Muswell Hill, Berke and Schatzman aimed to provide a non-institutional alternative to psychiatric treatment for individuals with emotional, psychological and social difficulties. The residential home accommodated up to eight residents aiming for an even balance of men and women within the community. By the twenty-first century the Association had added to the therapeutic community at Muswell Hill by providing psychotherapy services and training programmes from their head office in Hornsey, North London.

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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/2cf06591-2359-4c6c-a4a9-c684a3d7f94b/

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