Therafields
The Rise and Fall of Lea Hindley-Smith's Psychoanalytic Commune
Grant Goodbrand, Archie Klondike, George Murray
ECW Press
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?At one point in the 1970s, 900 people were engaged with a therapeutic
community in Toronto. Living together, and sharing emotional problems, the
participants helped to create an institution owning houses, farms, and
buildings. Therafields, the largest urban commune in Canada, was created by
Lea Hindley-Smith, a woman from England with no formal training in therapy.
But she exuded an astounding charisma, and developed ardent followers.
Initially, students and faculty from St. Michael's College, University of
Toronto, were drawn to her, and gradually the word spread that this woman had
enormous power to listen, and to heal. Carpenters, poets, teachers, lost souls
- they all found a home in Toronto's Annex neighbourhood. And according to one
of her followers at the time, Lea "was a gifted healer, a real estate
entrepreneur - and, as it turned out, a woman stalked by madness." When the
real estate market turned sour in the late 1970s, the financial structure
began to crumble. At the same time, Hindley-Smith's health started to fail,
and by the early 1980s the movement had collapsed. Here, Grant Goodbrand
reveals the behind-the-scenes story of Therafields.
community in Toronto. Living together, and sharing emotional problems, the
participants helped to create an institution owning houses, farms, and
buildings. Therafields, the largest urban commune in Canada, was created by
Lea Hindley-Smith, a woman from England with no formal training in therapy.
But she exuded an astounding charisma, and developed ardent followers.
Initially, students and faculty from St. Michael's College, University of
Toronto, were drawn to her, and gradually the word spread that this woman had
enormous power to listen, and to heal. Carpenters, poets, teachers, lost souls
- they all found a home in Toronto's Annex neighbourhood. And according to one
of her followers at the time, Lea "was a gifted healer, a real estate
entrepreneur - and, as it turned out, a woman stalked by madness." When the
real estate market turned sour in the late 1970s, the financial structure
began to crumble. At the same time, Hindley-Smith's health started to fail,
and by the early 1980s the movement had collapsed. Here, Grant Goodbrand
reveals the behind-the-scenes story of Therafields.
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