... with diagnoses of psychosis and other complex mental health conditions. An integral part of the pilot was the organization of the “Recovery Community,” inspired by the Assembly model embraced by Franco Basaglia. The Recovery Community met regularly to both support and learn from the Recovery House and aimed...

..., 1960s and 1970s, in particular those involving people suffering from acute psychosis, and the changing landscape of psychiatric provision may make further investigation difficult. The reasons for this, and for the difficulties reaching a firm conclusion, are outlined. In contrast, TC milieu...

... or most days of the week (Barone et al., 2009, 2010). GA is also inspired by the pioneering work of Pullen (1999, 2003), in the UK tradition of the apartment post TC for psychosis. Findings GAs in Italy have become one of the main methods of support housing in recovery-oriented treatment...

... observation, the leitmotifs of this process were the following: Therapeutic communities Personality disorder Psychoanalytic techniques TC practice Inpatient Psychosis Most patients diagnosed with self-disorders grow up in a disturbed world of attachment, or later experience regular...

... of the most common arguments in the debate on the ethics of RCTs in TCs. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Therapeutic communities Personality disorder TC practice Psychiatric patients Psychosis Day settings Although therapeutic communities (TCs) have a long tradition and have...

... initiative was built out in the Psychiatric Centres Sleidinge (close to Ghent, Belgium), where a democratic TC for dually diagnosed clients – persons with substance abuse problems and psychiatric problems (in this case mostly psychosis) – was developed, based on the ideas of Maxwell Jones and Jacques Lacan...

... it as such”. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Psychiatric patients Psychosis Training Dialogical approach Peer workers Trial For the word (and, consequently, for a human being) there is nothing more terrible than a lack of response (Bakhtin, 1975). Open dialogue (OD...