This article reflects upon three important facets of self-help, e.g., fellowship, helping
and healing; it provides an historical and social science base for the re-emergence of
a significant voluntary phenomenon—i.e., self-help groups in their contemporary
formats, while comparing and contrasting the approaches and limitations of profes
sional helper interventions with the positive consequences for personal and/or
social change through experiential knowledge gained by members of self-help
groups.
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