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Seeking Soteria: Being in Process is a memoir by Eugene Larkin about his involvement with the original Soteria House in San Jose, California, during the early 1970s. The book belongs to the intersection of personal memoir, mental health history, and psychiatric reform literature. Larkin writes from the position of someone who lived and worked inside a residential community designed for young adults experiencing acute psychosis, especially those diagnosed with schizophrenia. Rather than presenting a clinical manual, he reconstructs the atmosphere, practices, tensions, and ethical questions of a project that challenged standard psychiatric hospitalization. The core purpose is to show what humane care can look like when the first response to crisis is not control, restraint, or routine medication, but sustained presence, safety, and relationship. The memoir also preserves a historically important experiment associated with Loren Mosher and the wider critique of institutional psychiatry.