Stuart Kelter interviews Dr. Pesach Lichtenberg, the former Head of the Department of Psychiatry at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the director of a closed psychiatric hospital ward for 25 years before being fired for implementing ideas that violated mainstream psychiatric principles. He went on to become the founder and professional director of Soteria Israel, a non-profit organization that provides a home-like, non-coercive alternative to psychiatric hospitalization for recovery from acute psychosis and other extreme states. This model is on the verge of becoming the new mainstream model of acute psychiatric care in Israel.
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