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WOMAN DANCING DREAMING: PSYCHOSOCIAL BENEFITS OF THE ABORIGINAL OUTSTATION MOVEMENT
Author(s) -
Morice Rodney D.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1976.tb115531.x
Subject(s) - psychosocial , movement (music) , psychology , history , sociology , psychotherapist , aesthetics , art
The establishment of an Aboriginal outstation, or small autonomous community, is described. Some of the beneficial psychosocial changes observed during an eighteen‐month period are described, and some possible reasons for them outlined. The outstation movement is presented as a viable, Aboriginal‐initiated solution to some of the dilemmas facing present‐day Australian Aborigines.