As well as Paracelsus, Zurich is home to the Kusnacht Practice, where the concept originated. This, Gerber told me, is how it has to be. “If you put a billionaire in a group setting, even with well-off middle-class people, they will not be able to relate to each other,” Gerber told me. Gerber told me that the staff could behave however a client wanted, chatty or invisible. But as one former live-in therapist at one of the Swiss clinics told me: “It’s a blessing and a curse.

Source: The Guardian February 24, 2023 02:31 UTC