Talk:Soteria (psychiatric treatment)

Mosher chapter
The last chapter of Read et al’s Models of Madness (Routledge 2004) was written by Loren Mosher with substantial info about Soteria houses. I have a 2006 Spanish translation of Models of Madness and hope an English native speaker may update the article with said info. —Cesar Tort 22:48, 8 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Could you clarify what info you need?


 * Noticed there still doesn't appear to be an article on Loren Mosher, and "Mosher" redirects to Moshing..I'll start one. EverSince 09:19, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Alaska isn't a country.

Sources for article
Just posting some additional sources for this and the Loren Mosher article.

Radio interview

 * - might constitute a primary source - would depend on its usage - but interview with original clinical director of Soteria House.

Newspaper articles

 * - Decent newspaper article about Soteria House and Mosher.

Medical journals and conference proceedings

 * Conference proceeding and 1st report on Soteria House I think. There used to be full access to this pdf here: http://eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED067600.pdf Not functioning at the moment. The article link in the citation provide an abstract however.
 * - Requires a subscription to Psychiatric Services. Abstract available here.
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 * Subscription required to Wiley. Abstract available here
 * Requires subscription. First page of brief report available here.
 * Article in French. Full text available in citation link.
 * Article in German. Abstract available from pmid link.
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 * Article in German. Abstract available from pmid link.
 * Subscription from Sage required. Abstract available here.
 * Subscription to Springer required. Abstract available here
 * . Full text of article at link.
 * No abstract. Subscription required.
 * Full text available from in-citation link
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 * Requires subscription to Ingenta. Article abstract available here.
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Obituaries

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Other

 * Full text letter of resignation from APA by Mosher 4 Dec 1998


 * Full text available from in-citation link.


 * Soteria bibliography 1972-2004. For anything not on this list.

Soteria King County, Washington
I removed the following section as 1) its garbled 2) beyond the name I can't establish that this facility is really linked to Soteria movement. I'll be happily corrected on the latter point if anyone can provide a source. Excised section:

The website of this facility is available | here. I can't find any link between this organisation, the Soteria Alliance Corporation, whose inspiration appears to be scriptural, and Loren Mosher. I also cannot find any source, primary or secondary, to support the rather confused narrative in the quote above. FiachraByrne (talk) 22:08, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

French Wikipedia article
hello guys i translated the soteria page in french (well not all of it just the begining), and already after two days, somes moderators of the french wikipedia want to knock it out by telling it is not serious (soteria is not known in france). could a moderator from wikipedia in english that understands french explain that soteria is a serious thing ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.146.48.41 (talk • contribs) 17:33, 3 May 2013 UTC
 * If there are no good French sources then notability is a valid issue. I suggest you find the sources to show it merits an article there. Joja  lozzo  20:46, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

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Weirdly placed information
"There are a number of Soteria houses in Israel - two in Jerusalem alone." Why is this the first sentence in the article?? There is a section stating what countries have Soteria and Soteria-based houses. And also where is the reference??

Article tone
Although I don't personally know anything about Soteria, this article reads like a personal advertisement. It goes unusually hard on regular psychiatric hospitals. For example: "Doctors possess decision-making powers and final authority; primary therapeutic value is attached to drugs used extensively; patients are considered as having an illness, with concomitant disability and dysfunction which should be "treated" and "cured"; labeling and its consequences, namely stigmatization and objectification, are almost inevitable.  At Soteria, in contrast, the primary focus was on development, learning, and growth." While this is sourced, its tone is not exactly encyclopedic. Prinsgezinde (talk) 22:10, 10 August 2022 (UTC)


 * "goes unusually hard". This is your opinion. A true hospital is one where the person is there by choice and can leave at any time. A Psych hospital is like a prison as the patient/prisoner can not leave. Secondly a patient willing takes medicine for their illness in a regular hospital, where a prisoner is forced to take psychiatric drugs (for their "wrong" behaviour, behaviour being subjective) in a Psych hospital.
 * The truth of a "brain chemical imbalance" is now coming to light because of its overwhelming failure to help or cure the "mentally ill". https://slate.com/technology/2022/08/ssris-chemical-imbalance-depression.html Mark v1.0 (talk) 14:33, 19 January 2023 (UTC)