US psychiatry, drug companies and jazz misfits

It's a good Huffington Post story about the links between pharmaceutical companies and US psychiatry. More interestingly it highlights a pioneering psychiatrist Loren Mosher who believed schizophrenia could be better tackled with meaningful relationships than with drugs.

The Soteria House experiment worked better than Mosher had expected. Over the initial six weeks, patients recovered as quickly as those treated with medication in hospitals. Whitaker notes, "Even more striking, the Soteria patients were staying well longer....
... Mosher's success with nonprofessional caregivers and without drugs embarrassed establishment psychiatry and Big Pharma. The National Institute of Mental Health choked off Soteria House funding causing it to close down.

And I found this rather entertaining story about the potential mental health problems of people who listen to different types of music:

teenagers who listen to heavy metal are big on unprotected sex, self-harm and shoplifting...

those who listen to dance indulge in more drug use, no matter what their socio-economic background is...

And this is the best of all:

Jazz fans struggle with social acceptance, usually settling down as misfits and 'loners'.

Brilliant.