Intl R.D. Laing Institute & Society for Laingian Studies
For Loren Mosher
3 September 1933 - 10 July 2004
whom we will remember forever, with love and thanks.
If you have a minute, please add thoughts and memories you would like to share.
| Name: | judy schreiber |
| E-mail address: | mosher_schreiber@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | today is the second anniversary of loren's death - seems impossible but it is true - i know the best way to honor him is to carry on his beliefs - and i know that is happening as loren watches approvingly from his place - thanks to everyone for their support and caring
judy schreiber (mosher) |
| Name: | mumuan |
| E-mail address: | mumuan@mumu.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://yahoo |
| Comments: | i love this page |
| Name: | Alisa Farina |
| E-mail address: | alisa.farina@verizon.net |
| Comments: | Loren was a friend and colleague, who taught me so much about the "observant ego" and how the real agent of change , healing & growth is simply, love.
May his legacy live on. |
| Name: | John Newbery |
| E-mail address: | gallybagger@clear.net.nz |
| Comments: | Dear Loren
Thank you for coming to New Zealand and reminding me that some truths are simple. Like Love. |
| Name: | Paula G |
| E-mail address: | paula.g@ntlworld.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://paxilsupport.homestead.com |
| Comments: | A beautiful person with courage, determination, a great love of people and a talent for reflecting all this in writing - seasoned with just enough humour to add to the strength of his message. Loren Mosher can never know how much his courage helped our group in the UK to survive - personally and as a group - and to keep fighting for others and for pharmaceutical accountability. He is sadly missed, but his soul will always remain alive, shining brightly through the goodness of his life and through his website. PG. |
| Name: | Steve C |
| Comments: | Were it not for Dr. Mosher, I'd be dead. I'll perpetually be in his debt. |
| Name: | Willy Collins |
| E-mail address: | wcollins@comresearch.org |
| Comments: |
Friday, August 13, 2004 Mental Health Clients for Wellness & Recovery group San Diego & the California Network of Mental Health Clients along with clients in other states in the U.S. and survivors worldwide would like to take this opportunity to express to you our sympathies on Loren’s sudden death. We will feel this and be saddened by this for many years to come. I originally thought that Loren was just another psychiatrist. After listening to him ‘while he was awake’ at the managed care implementation planning meetings (these meetings used to bore him to sleep) numerous years ago, my initiation into CMH meetings, I noticed that Loren was very caring, knowledgeable, thoughtful, courageous and usually right. He repeatedly put a focus on what would have not even been mentioned by the other attendees of these meetings, -points that were client centered, intelligent and very important to healthy recovery minded living. I had found myself an ally who really understood what is mostly not describable by mental health clients when talking to professionals. In Loren we had a voice that could stand up to corporate managed care or the lack of it, large pharmaceutical companies, judges, lawyers and others. Loren had wonderful insight into what a person needs to recover from a setback. ‘Big Pharma’ may think they have won a rather large victory in the passing of Dr. Loren Mosher, but Loren’s work will live on in the many clients and advocates he befriended, supported, mentored, trained and stood by. I would like to take this time to say Thank You for Loren and what he stood for. Thank you for supporting his many causes. Sincerely Yours, The Mental Health Clients for Wellness & Recovery, California Network of Mental Health Clients |
| Name: | David stolper |
| E-mail address: | davidlev@cheerful.com |
| Comments: | Although I never met Dr Mosher i have been aware of his work and in particular his setting up of Soteria house.
I thought it was courageous of him to stand up for his belief's by resigning from the APA due to the now sadly prevalent method's of treating people only with drug's which lend false credence to the drug companie's My sincere comdolences to Dr Mosher's family.He will be soerely missed David Stolper, Capetown, Southafrica |
| Name: | Dr.Aku nwata |
| E-mail address: | akutata@magas.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://wwwakunwanne |
| Comments: | Adiue My DOCTOR and mentol.magastake note. |
| Name: | edie irwin |
| E-mail address: | mirapeerance@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Weeks late hearing of Loren's passing, I feel it none the less keenly. Loren, though we have met seldom in recent years, your example of courage and generosity, concern and love of difference has inspired me from our first meeting 30 years ago. May the flame of fairness and openess which you lit, burn brightly into the future. go well.
with love, Edie |
| Name: | Emilia Abeyta |
| E-mail address: | EmiliaAbeyta@Lycos.com |
| Comments: | My son was a patient at Metropolitan State Hospital. A lady by the name of Linda Brown put me in touch with the Federal Government and this individual initiated the Department of Justice investigation. I am so sorry I never had the opportunity to meet with Dr. Loren Mosher, because I felt that my son would benefit from treatment at Soteria House. Since the investigation happened the FDA Advisory Committee has held a recent hearing on the SUICIDE WARNINGS on these drugs. Also more funding is going into Mental Health. Some of these politicians are funded by pharma. The government is drugging our children into compliance. They are traumatized by the removal from their families. The policies and rules are there, they just don't follow the rules.
I believe that the passing away of Dr. Loren Mosher will now call even more attention to his life's work and his love for people and his faith in mankind. He is courageous, so is Dr. Peter Breggin, Dr. Ann Blake Tracy, and the list goes on and on. David Oaks is another example of determination. And we must continue this fight, because there are many preventable tragedies ahead of us. |
| Name: | Victoria D. Gaines |
| E-mail address: | PROUDut@aol.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.geocities.com/vdgaines |
| Comments: | Although I never met Dr. Mosher, I know he was a tireless fighter for the rights and dignity of those alleged to be mentally ill. I saw his presence everywhere on the Internet and read about many of his offline activities. He will be sorely missed by me and many others like me who know what a giant of a man he was. Bon Voyage, Dr. Mosher, to your new home where I hope you will be able to carry on with your love of humanity, truth and beauty.
Victoria D. Gaines aka PROUDNut |
| Name: | Victoria D. Gaines |
| E-mail address: | PROUDNnut |
| Comments: | Although I never met Dr. Mosher, I know he was a tireless fighter for the rights and dignity of those alleged to be mentally ill. I saw his presence everywhere on the Internet and read about many of his offline activities. He will be sorely missed by me and many others like me who know what a giant of a man he was. Bon Voyage, Dr. Mosher, to your new home where I hope you will be able to carry on with your love of humanity, truth and beauty.
Victoria D. Gaines aka PROUDNut |
| Name: | Dimitrij Itten |
| E-mail address: | itten@gmx.ch |
| Comments: | As the son of Heidemarie Krolak and Theodor Itten, we were visiting Loren and Judy in America a few years ago. In this age, I felt the positive and warm athmosphere in your house as we were having dinner together. Lorens humour and hospitality was heart warming and will stay in my memories. I wish Judy, that in every breath of you, the good energy of Loren will appear to give you strenght.
Dimitrij |
| Name: | Carolyn Meece |
| E-mail address: | Mchallen93@wmconnect.com |
| Comments: | Dr. Loren Mosher really touched my heart. He will really be missed and I appreciated that he was so honest and refused to to cater to the cover-up of the Psychiatric Industry. I felt that he was a real asset for survivors because there are not very many honest psychiatrists that will tell the truth and care about saving the lives of human beings. He treated me with respect and I have never received it from any psychiatrist that was illegally forced off onto me. He told the truth when he stated it is all about politics. For him being honest about the psychiatric profession, I had a great deal of respect for him and I was very sadened about his passing on. |
| Name: | Ron Hausman, Jr. |
| E-mail address: | RHsm8@aol.com, R_H_@msn.com |
| Comments: | A hero from afar. I have studied his truth. And have talked to him a couple of times. A man of honesty not bought with favors and priviledge and fraud. A man before his time and destined for glory. Good luck Loren. |
| Name: | Laura Borst |
| E-mail address: | rebelljb@aol.com |
| Comments: | It is regrettable that Loren Mosher died. The contributions of his life were questioning some of the prevailing practices of his profession, despite some great pressure he likely endured to conform to such practices. He was willing to consider not administering neuroleptics to people diagnosed with schizophrenia. In fact, he used psychosocial techniques that were looked down on by conventional psychiatrists. This was likely more enabling to such patients than being drugged into stupors by the disabling effects of neuroleptics. I believe that neuroleptics are merely designed to facilitate the control of people in institutions. |
| Name: | Cheryl Stevens MD |
| E-mail address: | castevensmd@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Dr. Mosher was an inspiration. His simple clarity and the strength of his experience and his work spoke to the hearts of so many...I appreciated meeting him for the first time at a NARPA conference in 2001 or 2002 after having read widely of his Soteria work. As a relative newcomer to the area of advocating for simple, safe, self-help measures to help people caught in extreme states, I was so very touched by how carefully he listened to my views. I have rarely felt so HEARD in my life... I also appreciated reconnecting with him on his recent visit to Mt. Holyoke College and then to Northampton to discuss a local community effort to establish a 'Soteria-Northampton.' He was warm, insightful, cordial but direct, and infinitely wise...He is in my heart. I hope that I can learn to listen as Dr. Mosher listened to me. Cheryl Stevens, MD |
| Name: | Janet Foner |
| E-mail address: | jbfoner@ptdprolog.net |
| Comments: | Loren was a dear friend and colleague on the MindFreedom Support Coalition board of directors, whom I will always remember as a sweet, fair-minded man and a tireless fighter against psychiatric oppression. He always had the intelligent solution to difficult situations. He stood on the side of psychiatric survivors as a supporter to our cause.
I first found out about Loren's work when I wrote my master's thesis in community psychology in 1985-'86. I was writing the thesis about creating an alternative to the mental health system based on the theory and practice of Re-evaluation Counseling. I needed to find alternatives that existed to talk about in the thesis, and Soteria House was the only one I could find that was an actual alternative to the system. I was thrilled and inspired to read about such a wonderful, drug-free alternative, and sorry to read that it no longer existed. I hoped to meet Loren, which I later did. When I did meet him, I could understand why Soteria House was so brilliantly planned and executed, because its founder was so clear about treating people well(something he always did, as far as I could tell) and about treating mental patients and ex-patients as fine human beings, worthy of respect and support. Loren was courageous in standing up against the corruption in his field, and yet never focused on petty arguments or disagreements. He saw the big picture of human rights and a world that can possibly appreciate people who are in the process of healing, a world where people can help people, and he went for it. He carried a lot of people forward in that direction. And his work will continue to do so. |
| Name: | casabordino volunteer association |
| E-mail address: | casabordino@tin.it |
| Homepage URL: | http://casabordino.com |
| Comments: | Survivors part of this mental health association vividly rememeber the conference Loren gave back in nov. in Torino, he gave us strength and the will to continue our struggle.
All the volunteers of Casa Bordino |
| Name: | Mickey Weinberg |
| E-mail address: | Mickey37@earthlink.net |
| Comments: | Loren set a standard for integrity, generosity, decency, compassion, and courage that I will look to through misty eyes for the rest of my life. With no apparent regard for ego, personal glorification, or self-interest he made his manifold gifts available to all who had need of them. He heaped scorn and anger on those who, by their actions, deserved his contempt, and he was kind, understanding, and humorous in the company of friends, colleagues, and others he cared about. He was a good and special guy. |
| Name: | judy schreiber |
| E-mail address: | mosherschreiber@compuserve.com |
| Comments: | i have just read all the wonderful memories on the website -as loren's wife i am constantly amazed at how many lives he touched - also as his wife i am warmed and sustained by the memories you have all shared - thank you
judy |
| Name: | luciano sorrentino |
| E-mail address: | lss@iol.it |
| Homepage URL: | http://libero.it |
| Comments: | To a long time friend and maestro who will be remembered for his intelligence and integrity. We will continue the never ending struggle to free survivors, to deinstitutionalize psychiatry and make it humane as you thaught us.
Luciano Sorrentino Torino Italy |
| Name: | Millie Kieve |
| E-mail address: | millie@april.org.uk |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.april.org.uk |
| Comments: | Loren Mosher and his wife Judy came to London at their own expense to support the first conference I had ever organised in 2001, for the charity I founded, APRIL.
I respected and admired the integrity and courage of a man who stood up for what was right and was honoured that he made the effort to come over to England. Loren spoke in our 2001 conference sharing a platform with others equally concerned and eminent in the field of adverse drug reaction awareness. Including Dr David Healy, Professor Heather Ashton and Professor James Wright. Loren's talk was full of evidence based material and very enlightening which added greatly to the success of the day. Loren will be missed by so many of us and I will be sure to pay tribute to him at our second conference in November. Sincere condolences to Judy and Loren's family. Millie Kieve APRIL (Adverse Psychiatric Reactions Information Link) www.april.org.uk |
| Name: | Lynn |
| E-mail address: | lmichaels02@yahoo.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ssri-research |
| Comments: | Loren - We all miss you... you gave us the strength to keep going. Your integrity was an example for us to follow. Your light kept us from dark.
You live on in each of us... and it is now up to us to carry that part of you and continue to pave the path for others. We are all eternally grateful. I know I can speak for the others who knew and loved you, as I did and do. Lynn |
| Name: | bob Woerner |
| E-mail address: | spirithelpersreno@webtv.net |
| Comments: | Thanks to Loren we will have the strength and courage to continue the fight fr our rights as Loren did. THANKS |
| Name: | bob Woerner |
| E-mail address: | spirithelpersreno@webtv.net |
| Comments: | Thanks to Loren we will have the strength and courage to continue the fight fr our rights as Loren did. THANKS |
| Name: | Ramo Kabbani |
| E-mail address: | RKabbani01@aol.com |
| Comments: | I met you when we were speaking at the April Conference in London a few years ago and was touched by your kindness, compassion and integrity. You signed a copy of your latest book and wrote a very encouraging message which really inspired me. I have always treasured that book and read your message whenever I felt in need of strength and inspiration. You made a huge difference and have touched the lives of many people worldwide. You were an example to your profession and indeed, to us all. Your memory will be kept alive as the excellent work you started continues. I remember telling you that you were a 'rare gem' and that is how I will always remember you.
Ramo |
| Name: | Kermit Cole |
| E-mail address: | kacole@fas.harvard.edu |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.wellmetproject.com |
| Comments: | As a result of learning about Loren's work, I became the director of a group home in Cambridge, and my life changed. I have used his writing extensively in formulating my own approach to the job, and to help in choosing and training staff. I am hoping to be involved in the formation of a Soteria-style house in Western Mass., and was excited that Loren might be involved. I hope now to be involved with a group of peers continuing Loren's good work.
I was fortunate to have some email contact with Loren, that helped me greatly in gaining confidence in what I was doing at my house. I regret that I will not be able to continue a personal connection, but I am grateful to have made a connection that I hope to continue honoring. I wish Loren luck in his future endeavors. I expect he will have better collaborators to draw on than some he suffered through in the past. |
| Name: | Brent Potter |
| E-mail address: | b.potter@laingsociety.org |
| Comments: | Dear Loren Mosher,
Whenever I have read your work, I've always been struck by your unremitting committment to relieving the suffering of the mentally distressed. And as everyone has so expressively described that individual way you had, I hoped to find a way to add how I saw you, and it seemed to me that Ronnie put it well in his eigth Sonnet when he wrote, "You illustrate in action man's right goal." While I did not know you personally, I take to heart your compassionate, caring, and committed comportment when working with those seeking relief from disturbance, and I wanted to say thank you. With kind regards, Brent Potter |
| Name: | Lise Villemaire |
| E-mail address: | lvillemaire@videotron.ca |
| Comments: | Dear Loren Mosher,
I didn't knew you at all, but from what I heard from your companions, you try to understand human beings with love instead with pills. As Ronnie said: "The way you treat someone is the treatment." And just for that, I'm sure that Abba bless you, already. So you can rest in peace now. Lise |
| Name: | theodor itten |
| E-mail address: | info@ittentheodor.ch |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.ittentheodor.ch |
| Comments: | Dear Friend Loren,
to feel your spirit, love and compassion for the suffering souls, and your fellows and mates opened my eyes and heart forever. Knowing you has been one of my great pleasures and fortunes of my life. You have passed away, yet will be with us forever, and those you infected and enchanted with your spirits amd example as a healer of arts, will continue practising to be with the other, who is the other, just as we are alike. Fair well and a big white bears hug, Love Theodor |
| Name: | Mina Semyon |
| E-mail address: | minasemyon@onetel.net.uk |
| Comments: | Although I didn't have much personal contact with Loren Mosher the news of his death touched me deeply in my heart. I remember seeing him at Leon and Christa Redler's house. I knew he was working hard to bring understanding rather than labelling to people with mental difficulties. There was kindness and good humour emanating from his face under the wide rimmed hat he used to wear. May we all do justice to his memory.
Love, Mina |
| Name: | Andrew Feldmár |
| E-mail address: | feldmar@interchange.ubc.ca |
| Comments: | I will always remember Loren smiling, driving fast, teasing, kidding, kind, welcoming, warm, fun!
I'll miss him. |
| Name: | Margreta Carr |
| E-mail address: | m.carr@l;aingsociety.org |
| Homepage URL: | http://laingsociety.org |
| Comments: | Dear Loren Mosher,
Thank you for the example you set for us. Your compassion and integrity will light the way forever. like a candle (...i...) love from Margreta. |
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