Episode 19 - Brain Stories Connections: Soteria - A Better Alternative to Psych Wards?
California, 1971: A project called Soteria launched to study if people with psychosis fared better in psychiatric hospitals, or an environment that put listening and relationships first, medication and diagnoses second. The results were astonishing. In today's episode we talk with Betsy Hoekstra about the only Soteria House currently running in the United States today.
Betsy works for Pathways Vermont, the agency that runs Soteria House. She was on-staff at Soteria for three years, and has experienced "psychiatric incarceration" herself. She lays out what sets Soteria apart from traditional…
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