The integrative milieu model, developed by Kevin F. McCready, is an alternative treatment regime to the medical model of psychiatry for treating people suffering from psychological distress.
A central part of the anti-psychiatry movement, being a close friend of Peter Breggin and a board member of the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology, McCready based his model on the idea that human psychological suffering is not caused by a physiological disease or a chemical imbalance, but by a compromise to a person's humanity.
[1] The integrative milieu model's approach is one which attempts to create a new community for its participants to interact within.
All clients enrolled in the integrative milieu also receive individual psychotherapy from one of the staff psychotherapists.
This therapy is psychodynamic in orientation, but adheres to the principles of the integrative milieu model.