Soteria
Book description
This is the story of a special time, space, and place where young people diagnosed as
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What would happen if instead of throwing people into jail-like mental wards and hammering them with tranquilizing drugs, we instead welcomed them into home-like settings and spent time listening and caring, patiently giving them time and space to explore the emotional roots of their crisis? Psychiatrist Loren Mosher did just that in the Soteria House research project in the 1970s and 80s, and the results were clear: people do better without medications and with listening and caring in a safe environment instead.
Mosher was the first chief of the Center for Studies of Schizophrenia of the National Institutes of Mental…
From Will's list on psychosis from someone who has schizophrenia.
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