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St. Lars: Ett parallellsamhälle i konstant förändring: En kvalitativ studie utifrån skötarnas perspektiv

Tellbe, Samuel LU and Drehmer, Simon LU (2025) SOPB63 20242
School of Social Work
Abstract
The goal of this study is to analyze the changing nature of Swedish psychiatry, in particular St. Lars institutional psychiatric hospital. Through the theme of change, we use the academic theories of new-intuitional theory and emotional sociological theory. We conducted six semi-structured interviews consisting of the staff who worked at St. Lars Psychiatric Hospital in Lund between 1971 to 2011. We examined how the staff viewed and experienced the social and political changes in psychiatry regarding its effect on St. Lars as a psychiatric hospital, its patients, and its labor force. The primary findings from our analysis showed how change in psychiatry was externally pressured by social norms and political reformations rather than the... (More)
The goal of this study is to analyze the changing nature of Swedish psychiatry, in particular St. Lars institutional psychiatric hospital. Through the theme of change, we use the academic theories of new-intuitional theory and emotional sociological theory. We conducted six semi-structured interviews consisting of the staff who worked at St. Lars Psychiatric Hospital in Lund between 1971 to 2011. We examined how the staff viewed and experienced the social and political changes in psychiatry regarding its effect on St. Lars as a psychiatric hospital, its patients, and its labor force. The primary findings from our analysis showed how change in psychiatry was externally pressured by social norms and political reformations rather than the internal demand of the staff. These reoccurring political reformations continuously changed the basis of Swedish psychiatry's management, treatment of patients, and staff’s caretaking and workplace. The most comprehensive change was the psychiatric reformation of 1995. Our analysis further expands on the conclusion that the reformation negatively affected patients by dismantling the mental institutions in favor of cost-efficient, small rehabilitation centers managed by local municipalities. (Less)
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author
Tellbe, Samuel LU and Drehmer, Simon LU
supervisor
organization
course
SOPB63 20242
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
förändring, psykiatri, personal, reform, institution
language
Swedish
id
9181412
date added to LUP
2025-01-23 15:39:38
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2025-01-23 15:39:38
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  abstract     = {{The goal of this study is to analyze the changing nature of Swedish psychiatry, in particular St. Lars institutional psychiatric hospital. Through the theme of change, we use the academic theories of new-intuitional theory and emotional sociological theory. We conducted six semi-structured interviews consisting of the staff who worked at St. Lars Psychiatric Hospital in Lund between 1971 to 2011. We examined how the staff viewed and experienced the social and political changes in psychiatry regarding its effect on St. Lars as a psychiatric hospital, its patients, and its labor force. The primary findings from our analysis showed how change in psychiatry was externally pressured by social norms and political reformations rather than the internal demand of the staff. These reoccurring political reformations continuously changed the basis of Swedish psychiatry's management, treatment of patients, and staff’s caretaking and workplace. The most comprehensive change was the psychiatric reformation of 1995. Our analysis further expands on the conclusion that the reformation negatively affected patients by dismantling the mental institutions in favor of cost-efficient, small rehabilitation centers managed by local municipalities.}},
  author       = {{Tellbe, Samuel and Drehmer, Simon}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{St. Lars: Ett parallellsamhälle i konstant förändring: En kvalitativ studie utifrån skötarnas perspektiv}},
  year         = {{2025}},
}