Скачать или смотреть The Case for Soteria: Past, Present and Future

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Evidence shows that Soteria houses are a more effective treatment for psychosis than conventional treatment—yet there is only one in the United States, which has been operating successfully in Burlington, VT for 9 years.

In this webinar, panelists from Soteria Vermont and other ongoing Soteria projects will describe the Soteria approach to treatment and what makes it so effective. They will also recount the history of Soteria houses and share details about Soteria Vermont, the formerly operating Soteria Alaska, and current efforts to create Soteria Las Cruces. Finally, panelists will discuss what it will take to expand the availability of Soteria houses in the US and make this option a possibility for all.

About the Panelists
Al Galves is a psychologist in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He is a past President of MindFreedom International and a past Executive Director of the International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry. He is part of a group that is creating a Soteria house in Las Cruces. He is the author of Harness Your Dark Side (New Horizon Press, 2010).

Susan Musante, MS, LPCC helped develop and was the founding director of Soteria-Alaska, a model that is highly effective for people who experience what most of us label as psychosis and uses people with similar experiences as supports. As the first full time director of CHOICES, a peer-led alternative to conventional outpatient treatment, she helped develop the peer work force in Alaska. She is an educator and advocate for voluntary, informed, compassionate supports that work.

Gene Larkin was directly involved in Soteria House, first as a volunteer and then as staff. He left Soteria House to go to San Francisco to help establish Diabasis, a similar, Jungian based treatment program, with renowned Jungian Psychiatrist, John Weir Perry. In 1974 He was brought back by Alma Menn, the Director of the Soteria Project and Loren Moher, Director of the Center for the Research of Schizophrenia at NIMH, to establish and become the Program Director of Emanon, the NIMH-funded replication study of Soteria House. In 1976, he was brought into The Phoenix Programs in Contra Costa County, in the Bay Area, to help them convert their existing residential programs into this more humane and effective treatment model.

Katie Bourque (she/her) has been engaged in non-profit work for the last fifteen years and has been managing innovative projects and programs for the last nine years. Katie’s passions are decarcerating care, harm/risk reduction, cognitive liberty, and centering the voices of folks with lived experience. Katie has experienced the power of mutuality and collective healing with peer support. She has worked with incarcerated or formerly incarcerated individuals for over a decade in prisons, hospitals, and in the community. Katie has experience in numerous residential settings, including as Soteria Vermont's director for many years and more recently the Rosewood Cottage Peer Respite in Vermont, which opened in fall 2024.

About the Host
Robert Whitaker is the author of four books, and coauthor of a fifth, three of which tell of the history of psychiatry. In 2010, his Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness won the U.S. Investigative Reporters and Editors book award for best investigative journalism. He is the founder of madinamerica.com, a website that features research news and blogs by an international group of writers interested in “rethinking psychiatry.”