The place for nidotherapy in psychiatric practice

Abstract

The treatment called nidotherapy can be regarded as a novel approach to an old problem, a rebranding of old wine in new bottles, or a vicarious diversion from the important stuff of psychiatry. Readers of Psychiatric Bulletin, who are mainly clinicians, are in an excellent position to decide on which is right. This review, by practitioners who are all involved in administering nidotherapy, is intended to ensure that a fourth way of looking at nidotherapy, from a lofty position of supreme indifference, is not really a satisfactory option.