[Self-help group in health: solidarity partnership and request].
In the last decades, mutual self-help groups in health have become increasingly popular. The renewal of psychiatric care after the Second World War, the development of social psychiatry in the sixties, the emergence of a general social emancipatory movement, and the implementation of patients' rights, all these changes favored the diffusion of mutual self-help groups in developed countries. These groups have in general no hierarchical relationship between helpers and helped persons; group participation is free, their members share common experiences and attach great importance to experimental knowledge. These groups can have different member types: patients; health professionals; family members or significant others. As these groups are becoming well-known, they favor a new relationship between patient, medical and political authorities.
Bardet Blochet
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Département de psychiatrie, Service de psychiatrie adulte, investigations psychosociales, HUG, chemin du Petit-Bel-Air 2, 1225 Chêne-Bourg. anne.bardet-blochet@hcuge.ch
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D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D011570:Psychiatry; D012657:Self-Help Groups
Groupes d'entraide et santé: solidarité, partenariat et revendication.