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This chapter describes two modern-day humanistic approaches to treating schizophrenia with a humanistic, client-centered approach and minimal use of neuroleptic drugs: Soteria House in the United States and Open Dialogue Therapy in Finland. This chapter features an interview with Jaako Seikkula, Professor of Psychotherapy at the University of Jyväskylä and one of the founders of Open Dialogue.
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Loren R. Mosher, Ann Reifman, and Alma Menn, “Characteristic of Nonprofessionals Serving as Primary Therapists for Acute Schizophrenics,” Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 24, no. 6 (June 1973): 391–396; Loren R. Mosher and Alma Menn “Soteria: An Alternative to Hospitalization for Schizophrenics,” Current Psychiatric Therapies, 21, (1982): 287–296; Loren R. Mosher, “The Soteria Project: the First-Generation American Alterative to Psychiatric Hospitalization,” in Alternatives to the Hospital for Acute Psychiatric Treatment, ed. Richard Warner, (Washington DC: American Psychiatric Publications, 1995), 111–132; and Loren R. Mosher, “Soteria and Other Alternatives to Acute Psychiatric Hospitalization: a Personal and Professional Review,” Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 187, no. 3 (March 1999): 142–149.
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Mosher, “Soteria Project,” 112.
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Ibid., 113.
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Ibid., 113.
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Mosher et al., “Nonprofessionals,” 393–394.
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Mosher et al., “Nonprofessionals,” 393.
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Mosher, “Soteria Project,” 111.
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Ibid., 116.
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Mosher and Menn, “Alternative to Hospitalization,” 193.
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Ibid., 193.
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Mosher, “Soteria Project,” 111.
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Ibid., 115.
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Mosher, “Soteria and Other Alternatives,” 142.
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Mosher, “Soteria Project,” 120.
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Ibid., 125.
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Mosher, “Soteria and Other Alternatives.”
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Tim Calton et al., “A Systematic Review of the Soteria Paradigm for the Treatment of People Diagnosed With Schizophrenia,” Schizophrenia Bulletin, 34, no. 1 (January 2008): 181–192, https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbm047
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Ville Lehinten et al., “Two-Year Outcome in First Episode Psychosis Treated According to an Integrated Model. Is Immediate Neuroleptisation Always Needed?” European Psychiatry, 15, no. 5 (2000): 312–320; Seikkula, Jaakko, Birgitta Alakare, and Jukka Aaltonen, “Open Dialogue in Psychosis II: A Comparison of Good and Poor Outcome Cases,” Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 14, (2001):267–284; Jaako Seikkula et al. “Open Dialogue Approach: Treatment Principles and Preliminary Results of a Two-Year Follow-Up on First Episode Schizophrenia,” Ethical Human Sciences and Services, 5, no. 3 (Fall/Winter 2003): 164–182; Jaako Seikkula et al. “Five-Year Experience of First-Episode Psychosis in Open-Dialogue Approach: Treatment Principles, Follow-Up Outcomes, and Two Case Studies,” Psychotherapy Research, 16, no. 2 (March 2006): 214–228.
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Seikkula et al., “Open Dialogue Approach,” 165.
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Ibid., 166.
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Ibid., 166.
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Seikkula et al., “Five-Year Experience,” 220.
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Jaako Seikkula, email April 25, 2018.
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Seikkula et al., “Five-Year Experience,” 225.
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Hahn, P.D. (2019). Soteria House and Open Dialogue Therapy. In: Madness and Genetic Determinism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21866-9_13
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