Catalogue description The Arbours Association Archive

This record is held by Planned Environment Therapy Archive and Special Collections including the National Childcare Library

Details of ARBOURS
Reference: ARBOURS
Title: The Arbours Association Archive
Description:

Papers of the Arbours Association including administrative papers, selected journals and materials relating to the Crisis Centre.
Date: 1970 - 2005
Held by: Planned Environment Therapy Archive and Special Collections including the National Childcare Library, not available at The National Archives
Former reference in its original department: SA/ARB
Language: ENG
Creator:

The Arbours Association
Physical description: 141 boxes
Physical condition: Paper, photographs, journals
Access conditions:

MIXED
Unpublished finding aids: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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