This paper presents a large-scale project on collecting, documenting, and preserving source material on Swedish IT-history between 1950 and 1980. The project created new source material using methods of contemporary history such as interviews, witness seminars, and autobiographies. The paper describes the project’s organization, its methods, and its results.

BACKGROUND Some people who by themselves or by others are understood as having mental health problems have written autobiographies about their experiences. AIMS The aim of this study is to explore how people write about their experiences of being mentally ill. METHOD Twelve Scandinavian autobiographies were studied using content analysis based on phenomenology and hermeneutics. RESULTS Th...

People typically assume that killers are mentally ill or fundamentally different from the rest of humanity. Similarly, people often associate mental health conditions (such as schizophrenia or autism) with violence and otherness—treatable perhaps, but not empathically understandable. We take a dictionary approach to explore word use in a set of autobiographies, comparing the narratives of 2 kil...

for he has attempted, with perhaps less than complete success, to provide a social setting for his story. The book is, therefore, of interest to all concerned with medical education, especially those grappling with plans for new schools or the rehabilitation of old ones, and also to those concerned with the problems relating to the provision of health care. In other words it is not intended for...

This article examines how historical contexts affect the recollection of experiences rape. We reanalyze sexual autobiographies that were gathered in Finland 1992 a sex research project called FINSEX. To illustrate time rape as well it is recalled shape possibilities narrating life story, we present close reading four place context collection whole, and compare our analysis to their interpretati...