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Background: The diploma thesis deals with the method of equine facilitated psychiatry and psychology and its use in the treatment of addictions. The theoretical part is the starting point of the whole work. It presents the basic methods of treatment used, the method of Equine facilitated activities and therapies itself and its inclusion in traditional methods of addiction treatment. The research part is based on qualitative data collection. Aims: The aim of the diploma thesis is to describe the use of equine facilitated activities and therapies in residential addiction treatment. Find out how patients and therapists evaluate this method, what areas of life are affected by equine facilitated activities and therapies and how it fits into current treatment methods. Data: The research group consists of eight patients from the addiction treatment department at a psychiatric hospital who met the selection criteria. And two therapists who work with the method of equine facilitated psychiatry and psychology in addicted clients / patients and met the selection criteria. Methods: The chosen type of research was process evaluation. Patients were focused on the focus using a semi-structured interview and a semi-structured interview on the therapists. Results and Conclusion: Research has shown that horses have...

This study examines how the mental health care institution of Sankt Sigfrid's hospital treated women discharged between 1946–1950. This study aims to understand the mental institution as an institution of power, at work through its definitions of women as sick and as healthy. The source material used in this study is case records from Sankt Sigfrid's hospital. The results from the study show that the medical certificate with the mental history and the family history of the patients were important documents for letting women enter the hospital. The family's health background documentation showed that a majority of the women had a normal childhood. The results also show that the medical certificates and the doctors' journals were embodied with negative descriptions, about patients' family- and social history, which was needed for the diagnosis and to place the individuals into a patient category. / Denna studie belyser hur institutionen Sankt Sigfrids sjukhus behandlade kvinnor som blev utskrivna åren 1946–1950. Genom att analysera sjukjournaler och vårdattester från Sankt Sigfrids sjukhus ämnar studien att förstå hur sinnessjukvården fungerade som en maktinstitution i relation till hur kvinnor ansågs sjuka respektive friska. Resultaten av denna studie visar att vårdattesten, med patientens sjukdoms- och familjehistoria var viktiga beståndsdelar för om kvinnorna fick intas eller inte. Dokumentens information om kvinnornas familjehistoria har i analysen varit viktiga då dokumenten visat att en majoritet av kvinnorna kom från normala uppväxtförhållanden. Andra resultat i studien visar att vårdattesten och läkarnas anteckningar innehöll negativa beskrivningar av patienternas familje- och sociala historia som var nödvändiga för diagnosticering och kunna placera individen i kategorin patient.