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Thursday, 15 May 2014

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Self-Help and Mental Health, Gartner A. Social Policy, Vol. 7(2), 28-40, Sept/Oct, 1976

THE ANONYMOUS GROUPS.

In many ways it is appropriate to begin a description of self help groups with Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) . Founded in 1935, AA is the oldest of groups currently in existence (1). It is also the largest self-help organization – one study estimated 18,612 AA groups in 1972 and AA itself reported 26,967 groups in 1975 (2); and it is the group most written about - in 1973, a 63-page annotated bibliography on AA was issued (3). Further, it has been both the model of self-help for many and the spawning ground for at least a dozen other groups, e.g., Gamblers Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, Neurotics Anonymous, Parents Anonymous, the newly founded (1976) Prison Families Anonymous, as well as AA auxiliary groups such as Al- Anon and Alateen.”



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