ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an introduction to mindfulness and its rapidly growing place within psychiatry and mental health. Psychiatric mental health nursing is an interpersonal process grounded in a professional caring relationship for the purpose of promoting health and forward movement of the person in the direction of creative and productive, personal and community living. Morita therapy, developed by Dr Shoma Morita, is a psychotherapy in which emotions such as anxiety and fear are understood as a natural phenomenon of the human psyche. Neurosis is understood to result from the secondary meanings attached to these emotional reactions rather than the emotions themselves. The Windhorse Program for Recovery provides individualized comprehensive home-based whole-person treatment for people experiencing extreme psychiatric distress. A windhorse team has three primary components: a therapeutic household with live-in housemates, several therapists providing basic attendance, and individual psychotherapy provided by a principal therapist.
