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Ron E.
Roberts' notion. A kind of alternative or intentional community, a communal organization
that arises during great periods of stress and upheaval in society and is designed to
protect the "fragile" individual from the normlessness
of social change. Many "communities of therapy" have
arisen in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as a response to industrialization and industrial-social change - its
poverty, its uprooting of traditions, etc. Most communities of therapy try to provide a
buffer between the bureaucratic, impersonal, mass society and the
individual. They often encourage individual creativity and the development of the
"whole person," as well as general psychological strength. Examples range from
the nineteenth century Shakers to the countercultural "hip communes" of the
twentieth century. - ibid.
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