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Att vara medlem i kontaktgrupp. (Being a member of a contact group.)
- Author:
- PERSSON Lars G.
- Journal article citation:
- Nordisk Sosialt Arbeid, 13(1), 1993, pp.39-50.
- Publisher:
- Universitetsforlaget AS
Based on a Swedish interview study with some former psychiatric patients who are now members of a contact group. These are municipally organised and staffed and held in a flat to which the members can come during the daytime to meet and pass the time in various ways. The findings show that the members have the opportunity to tackle loneliness and idleness in the contact group. It fills the function of a primary group for most lonesome people, while giving the other members something to do. After years in the enforced collective of a mental hospital, the interviewees prefer to live on their own. They are aware, however, that they would have difficulties in coping with their new life without access to the contact group. By all appearances the contact group represents a form of support which society must be prepared to make constantly available.