[Toward a more gentle psychiatry--to patients and understanding illness of affect logic].

Based on the disease- and human understanding of "affect logic" developed by the author, new ways to a "more gentle psychiatry" than usual up to now are shown. Over 18 years continuous experience with the pilot project "Soteria Bern"--predominantly milieu- and psychotherapeutic treatment of acute schizophrenia--are used as examples. In refurbishing normal psychiatric hospital wards meant for all types of patients, a much less violent therapeutic atmosphere was created through the introduction of "Soteria-Elements" as well. In toto it can be shown that a more gentle psychiatry can be realized without greater costs, if the interaction between feeling, thinking and behavior are more fully understood and observed. For this, the concept of "affect logic" delivers a theoretic basis that has been proven in practice.