Wilmer H A
Hosp Community Psychiatry. 1981 Feb;32(2):95-9. doi: 10.1176/ps.32.2.95.
The term "therapeutic community" has been used to describe a vast array of milieu therapy techniques; thus the term has come to mean different things to different people. The author defines the therapeutic community through an examination of its historical roots in the British military hospitals of World War II and the development of the treatment concept as an ideology. He classifies therapeutic communities as left, right, or center in their therapeutic ideology. It is in the communities of the center, the least dogmatic and most flexible typology, that the author finds hope for the most effective type of therapy.
“治疗性社区”这一术语已被用于描述大量的环境治疗技术；因此，这个术语对不同的人来说有不同的含义。作者通过考察其在第二次世界大战期间英国军事医院的历史根源以及作为一种意识形态的治疗理念的发展来定义治疗性社区。他根据治疗理念将治疗性社区分为左派、右派或中间派。正是在中间派社区中，这种最不教条、最灵活的类型，作者找到了最有效治疗类型的希望。
