Really great news - looks like the Open Dialogue is striking roots in more places. May the paradigm shift be here soon.
Psychiatrist (and MIA blogger) Sandra Steingard leads a team from Vermont in replacing antipsychotic medication with dialogue between patients, family members, and others. Steingard, concerned since the 1990s about the overselling of antipsychotics and understating of their risks – and patients’ refusal to take them – “didn’t really know what else to do. I didn’t see any other path” until learning about Open Dialogue, which originated in Finland. “They’re not really seeing schizophrenia in Finland. They’re seeing the same number of people coming in with acute psychosis,” Steingard says, “but people are getting better."
http://www.madinamerica.com/2013/01/...for-psychosis/
