The Far Side of Madness: 2nd Edition
John Weir Perry was a Jungian psychiatrist and the author of many books, includingThe Self in Psychotic Process, The Heart of History,andTrials of the Visionary Mind.During the 1970s Perry founded an experimental residential facility called Diabasis, in Berkeley, California. This was designed as a comfortable home where young adults, who were experiencing the initial days of their first "acute schizophrenic break," could live in a supportive atmosphere and be empowered to go through the experience without any treatment by medication, electroshock or locked doors. He later wroteThe Far Side of Madness,a book about Diabasis.