
Pesach LichtenbergHebrew University of Jerusalem | HUJI · Department of Psychiatry
Pesach Lichtenberg
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Introduction: Although community mental healthcare has been rapidly developing, hospital‐based psychiatric admissions are still highly prevalent worldwide.
Aims: In this study, we aimed to assess the long‐term effectiveness of two novel alternatives to psychiatric admission: Soteria homes and technologically assisted intensive home treatment (TAIHT...
Patient-therapist alliance in two alternative treatment settings developed similarly to that in traditional psychiatric hospitalization.
When attempting to understand the action of psychiatric medication, is it best to focus on neurobiological changes or should we take into account first-person data about conscious experience? Can we study the subjective states caused by the drugs in order to better understand how medications work and how to use them? Would that then enable psychiat...
Short-Term Acute Residential Treatment (START) homes, located in the community and operating in noninstitutional atmospheres, seek to reduce rehospitalization. This report investigates whether these homes reduced rates and duration of subsequent inpatient stays in psychiatric hospitals. For 107 patients treated in START homes after psychiatric hosp...
Methodological problems in the dominating psychiatric paradigm plague the study of drug safety and effectiveness. The framing of psychiatric drug action in relation to terms such as safety and effectiveness could be viewed as problematic in itself, as it stems from a medical perspective on distress and madness. The prevalent conceptualization of dr...
Background
Since 2016, Soteria homes have been operating in Israel. In this report we describe the implementation of the model.
Methods
Data for 486 residents staying in one of three Soteria homes from 2016 through 2020 are presented. The model, and necessary modifications, are discussed.
Results
The majority of the residents in the Soteria homes...
Introduction:
Inspired by a model developed in the early 1970s in the USA for the treatment of people in the throes of a mental crisis, often psychotic, the first "Soteria House" was established in Jerusalem in September 2016. The purpose of the house is to prevent psychiatric hospitalization, to offer a supportive therapeutic community and to hel...
Diagnostic nomenclatures have been central to mental health research and practice since the turn of the 20th century. In recent years, an increasing number of mental health professionals have proposed that a paradigm shift in diagnosis is inevitable. The Standards and Guidelines for the Development of Diagnostic Nomenclatures and Alternatives in Me...
After over two decades serving as the director of a closed inpatient unit, the author initiated the establishment of the first Soteria home in Israel. The article describes the intellectual, professional, and personal journey of transformation. The principles of Soteria are presented, and prospects for the establishment of more Soterias are discuss...
Clinical trials indicate that glycine site agonists of the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors may reduce negative and cognitive symptoms in treatment-resistant schizophrenia when used as adjuvants to conventional antipsychotics but possibly not to clozapine. In this study, we assessed whether high-dose glycine may also be therapeutically benefic...