Soteria: Through Madness to Deliverance Paperback – December 21, 2004

Wonderful books about an important topic! I only gave 4 stars because whoever published this book did a terrible editing job. Read the review on the back cover (by Oliver Sacks) and it’s easy to see that no care was taken in producing a quality print of this incredibly important book.

Soteria House shows the possibilities of another cheaper and much more humane approach to treating mental illnhess. It includes many of the current tools but with a staff that is encouraged to assist those going through psychosis or as many today begin to call it, "spiritual emergence'. The book is well written and a classic for alternative approaches to mental health treatment. This is the way most of humanity treated their brothers and sisters when they had spiritual emergence or in Western Psychiatric terms, "Psychosis". The wholeistic movement toward better and cheaper mental health treatment includes the this classic as a return to the human way of helping others use psychosis as a healing breakthrough rather than a reason to have 4o years of toxic drug medications.

As an alternative form of treatment for schizophrenics, I applaud Dr. Mosher's point of view. I believe that psychotropic drugs do more harm than good, and that the big pharmaceutical companies are in cahoots with psychiatrists, buying their way into oblivion.Unfortunately, this type of alternative facility will never be funded by the United States.

I loved this book. As a former crisis residential director, I was blown away at the stories recounted of meaningful treatment and recovery, with minimal use of medications.

Gives the reader a thorough look at what truly productive mental health care looks like. It also becomes obvious to the reader that this method is not used today because it is not supporting the drug and psychiatric industry. If anyone wants true healthy recovery and their life to be productive this project reveals the way it was supposed to be.

Nice, thank you.

A very useful book for those who have been victims of the mental health system in the USA. It gives you hope and insight into alternative treatments without medication. I wish the place was still open....I hope someone would take this vision and build upon it!!

The approach to allowing madness to be recognized as being human.

A very good insight in to alternative approaches to the care of the mentally ill.Shame we have so few places like these for people to stay in for help and recovery.

Fascinating and inspiring account of this pioneering study into low-restraint low-medication mental health treatment. Well-written and gripping, the passion of the staff really comes across. Must-read for anyone interested in alternatives to the current model.

good price and quick delivery thanks

Treating extreme distress by dialogue and caring attention instead of doctor's vested interests in using harmful psycotropical drugs must be developped and become the norm.

Working myself in a Soteria in Germany, i really enjoyed reading the book and i can tell you from my working experience, that the concept still works.