UK Rehab extols 'horsehugging' therapy for addicts

The Priory enlists horses to treat the anxious, the angry and the addicted


They call it Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy. You might call it horse-hugging. But it's the latest way to kick bad habits. Jonathan Thompson reports
Published: 23 October 2005


It worked for Sophie Anderton and Robert Downey Jnr, and now America's latest way to kick a bad habit has arrived in Britain - at The Priory, of course.

Hanging out with horses, it is claimed, can help addicts understand animals and therefore themselves.

Welcome to the world of Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy (EAP).

At a riding school nestled among trees and fields around the no man's land where north London blurs into Hertfordshire, a small group of people wait in silence by the gate to a stable yard.

Of all ages and both sexes, the group of 10 paying customers watch eagerly as two horses are led from their stables, before following them and a handful of trained instructors into a covered teaching arena.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/article321645.ece

Or maybe Helen of Troy.....

would that be Assinine therapy ?

is exactly the same as "the rapist", bar the odd blank.

in my whole life and I only regret that I cannot ride anymore because of my health. But just caring for our horses - or, if you so want, horse-hugging does me a hell of a lot of good.

Horses are good for people :)

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