The keyring to Cathy Dias’ pants is thick like that of a prison guard. He strums softly, if you are rejected from the guest through the rooms of the former Hotel Sonloup. Built in 1911, it stands on a Rocky elevation above the small village of Les Avants, above Montreux. Inside, time seems to stand still: heavy runner on wood stairs, dark-paneled rooms, heavy armchair fire in front of crackling fireplace – as would be expected for the tea Russian or English Gentlemen. They spent their Winter time on the Shores of lake Geneva, to drink in the fresh air, the fresh milk and the sublime Scenery.
fences and security cameras around the art Nouveau and the key on the belt of the hotel Manager, the slides suggest that this is no ordinary Inn. In the Hotel a rehab clinic today. When the heavy door falls into the lock, also locks the old life of the patient. In the clinic for the multi-millionaires, depending on the problem, a withdrawal, a wide range of therapies, menus of a “Gault Millau”chef, views of the Dent du Midi and the lake of Geneva, a gym, a Spa, meditation room. Almost like in a five star hotel. Is easier to the wallet: A week 40 costs 000 francs, it is recommended that a minimum stay of 28 days.
withdrawal in a night club
at the end of September 2018, with a capacity of 15 to 20 patients, is the Clinique Les Alpes the most recent example of a Trend that has also reached Switzerland: clinics for the jet set, equipped with the comforts of a luxury hotel and the goal is to heal a particularly insidious disease: Addiction .
Its the beginning of this Trend took place in the zero years in California. Within a few years, as a rule, there developed rights deprivation industry for a financial strong and at the discretion of thoughtful audience.
Alone in Malibu, a small town North of Los Angeles, there are now over thirty such facilities, many of which place more value on luxury, because on withdrawal. Known worldwide for her limpy deprivation regime about the Wonderland clinic in Malibu was where the notorious party girl Lindsey Lohan had checked in. During the day you had because of your alcohol-, cocaine – and addiction to Pills treat, in the evening, she moved with her best friend Paris Hilton overserved by Hollywood night clubs.
“practice, the need to know”
something like this would be in the Clinique Les Alpes is not possible, the medical Director of the Randolph Willis leaves no doubt. Here, one takes the issue of Addiction seriously, be it alcohol or cocaine addiction, behavioral addictions such as eating disorders or compulsive gambling or even Burn-out disease. “The latter we call addiction a disease, but it is a consequence of addiction-like behaviors of Workaholics,” he says.
For more than twenty years, the native Americans dealt with the topic, first of all, in clinics in the French speaking part of the country, then in private practice in Montreux. Here he began to specialize, thanks to his English mother tongue for an international clientele, in addition to English, mainly Russians and Arabs and Americans.
Searches don’t do in front of other cultures, but the handling of it requires from the therapist to the corresponding finger tip feeling. As an example, Willis, patients from the Arab region, mentioned: “There is in this culture where many taboos and very own practices, you have to know and respect, otherwise it leads to misunderstandings easily.”
The spiritual aspect
You can mountains claustrophobic feel, but they give structure and stability. That’s why they built here has always been sanatoria for pulmonary and Nervous diseases, therefore, literati, and artists, Inspiration is sought here, that’s why Revolutionaries and anarchists found refuge here. Today addicts are looking for in the sublime mountain landscapes of transcendent experiences. In the Clinique Les Alpes, there is the so-called Serenity Space in the Rock, whipped into a space right on the edge. Here, you can, who wants, through its own abysses, meditate, or with a priest, Rabbi or Imam to sit together. The spiritual aspect is important for healing, says Willis. “Search the whole of existence occupied. It falls away, often Empty, and Depression, and it quickly comes to relapse.”
The coziness of an English country house – just without the alcohol: the room of the Clinique Les Alpes.
first and foremost, is to learn patients to feel in harmony with the universe and nature. Some of these experiences with Adventure or a close personal environment. This is for the long-term healing success. “A large part of the therapy is the patient on life after that, prepare to secure a network of family, other Concerned and therapists.” The goal is that the patient is a Dimension of life that had previously filled the drug. And in a healthy way. to plan
In Switzerland, is difficult, but for the right reasons. That’s why the country is so great.Patrick Wilson, a British Investor
As with many other luxury rehab clinics in Switzerland, a foreign Investor is behind the project: Patrick Wilson, bright eyes, back gegeltes hair, type British Lord meets Californian Sunnyboy. Around 50 million invested, the native Englishman, the thing was to him a matter of the heart. In the middle of the zero years, he summed up his Plan for a rehab clinic in Switzerland, thus continuing a development which started in the last century: Hemingway neutral Switzerland described as an escapist’s Paradise, the Central Spa of Europe, a place for fashionable whims, luxury hotels, and Nude sunbathing.
the English Lord meets California’s Sonny boy: Investor Patrick Wilson. (Photos: Fabienne Andreoli)
As the needs of transformed, adapted to the Swiss. Many luxury spas clubs Bank shops, schools and slopes in the same valley. More recently, mental disorders specialized clinics. “Switzerland is a perfect place for recreation in the broadest sense,” says Wilson. “The magical, peaceful surroundings, in the discretion of, the International. Everyone can say goodbye to a couple of weeks in Switzerland, without that stupid questions are asked.”
Fears the higher daughters
The more questions the residents and authorities. Objections to the clinic came from the Catholic girls ‘ boarding school, Le Châtelard in Les Avants. They feared moral decay and a negative impact on the higher daughters. The monument had to contend also against the feared disintegration of the historic fabric of the building, and imposed by the Lausanne architect Ignacio Dahl Rocha strict requirements to their preservation. To plan “In Switzerland, is difficult,” says Wilson. “But for all the right reasons: that is Precisely why it is such a great country, because you checks prefer twice before you act.”
in the Meantime, we agreed with the school, the Hotel, gently renovated. The style of the house was “discreet Glamour” with the comfort of an English country house, writes the Investor. Just without the alcohol. The modern Annex with the withdrawal station, the meditation room and the Spa is located discreetly in the Rock is hidden and is only from the air can be viewed.
From Montreux departs every hour a train to the station Les Avants, mostly occupied with tourists from India, China and the Middle East. In addition, the former Hotel Sonloup seems to float on its rocky outcrop, concealed, and the time caught up. His secrets keep it to yourself, as well as those of his patients, leaving it as a simple tourist.
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 10.01.2019, 08:50 PM
