Milöterapi som kollektivt eller individrettet fenomen? En etnografisk studie av dagliglivet i et
psykiatrisk sykehus
i individualismens tidsalder
Engelsk titel: Milieu therapy as a collective or individualistic phenomenon? An ethnographic study of daily life in
a psychiatric hospital in the era of individualism
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Författare:
Skorpen, Aina
;
Öye, Christine
Email: christine.oye@hsh.no
Språk: Nor
Antal referenser: 40
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 10103620
Sammanfattning
The article illuminates milieu therapy as a collective and democratic tradition in the era of individualism. The article is based on a nine months
ethnographic field research on daily life and milieu therapy in a psychiatric hospital. Milieu therapy is in its origin a psycho-social therapeutic
tool which is based on a collective daily life, while policy documents of today are formulated in an individualistic way. In order to illuminate the
tension between the collectivistic milieu therapy and individualistic considerations the article compares the tradition of «The therapeutic community
» with milieu therapy of today. Milieu therapy of today can be considered individualistic. Milieu therapy efforts were addressed towards
the individual patient, and not addressed towards the ward milieu as a whole. Furthermore, the ward milieu was organized for patients to take
choices based on individual wishes and needs, and not for collectivistic purposes. The article discusses how the ward milieu can be organized
for the purpose of considering individual patients’ wishes and needs, as well as how to facilitate and utilize the possibilities of a larger psychosocial
environment.