farm families – A New Vision for Mental Health

Kyrie Farm: A transformative initiative for Ireland’s mental health services

Author: Editorial 27th October 2021 0 Comments

This new initiative plans to open in March 2023. The organisers say: “The Kyrie Therapeutic Farm will support recovery through the creation of a healing environment combining a supportive community, therapeutic and holistic care and meaningful opportunities for participating in a natural farm setting in Ireland.!…
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Healing Homes: recovery from psychosis without medicine

Author: Editorial 23rd April 2018 0 Comments

Healing Homes is a feature-length documentary film, directed by Daniel Mackler, which chronicles the work of the Family Care Foundation (Gothenburg, Sweden) who, in this era of multi-drug cocktails and psychiatric diagnoses-for-life, run programmes to help people recover from psychosis without medication. The organisation, backed…
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Daniel Mackler, families, farm families, films, Healing Homes, medication-free recovery, psychiatry, psychosis, videos