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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