Battersea Action and Counselling Centre (BACC)

This is a brief account of a community psychotherapy project, set up in the 1970s in inner London, as an intervention outside state provision, to address some of the mental health needs, suffering and unmanageable distress of local working-class people. It represents a conjunction of left-wing and socialist politics with a commitment to psychoanalytic and therapeutic understandings of the psychic injuries of class.