Loren Mosher — The Man

Loren Mosher through the words of those who knew him and worked with him...

“His death leaves a great gap within us. He's been a Maestro of science and moral rectitude, with coherence up to his death. He was Honorary Member of the Association which I head, and I received from him many precious advices.

“I had the pleasure to meet him once, in 2003, in Turin, and I appreciated his extraordinary human gift. I shall never forget neither the person nor his life-lesson. Thank you Loren for all that you have done, and for having been my friend.”

— Dr Claudio Ajmone, Tributo a Loren Mosher,
NLP-3 Bulletin , n° 3, August 2004.

“Loren Mosher was like a Schindler of psychiatry ... a psychiatrist who fought his own profession's oppression, who was a tremendous ally to survivors of psychiatric human rights violations. ... He did so many things to support me, our group, so many groups, and our entire social change movement.

“Loren was also superb at encouraging other mental health professionals to have the simple courage and decency to speak out ... How many people's lives and minds were saved because Loren helped them escape psychiatry's systemic abuse, both in Soteria and in many other ways, internationally?”

— David Oaks, director of MindFreedom

“We are grateful to Mosher for the cultural legacy which he shared with us, as well as for the tenacity by which he faced adversities in order to breach through the «rubber wall» that enshrouds the mental health business. Mosher reopened to us the doors of hope for a cure to the malaise of our century — «Schizofrenia». The proof to this are the many souls which he restored to inner peace.”

— Tristano Ajmone, Tributo a Loren Mosher,
NLP-3 Bulletin , n° 3, August 2004.

“The US psychiatrist Loren Mosher spent his entire professional career seeking more humane and effective treatment for people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. This caused him to be cast as a maverick and to be marginalised by mainstream psychiatry.”

— British Medical Journal