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Istana, featured in The Times Luxx Magazine — Burnout Clinics for Billionaire CEOs

Press Articles

February 7, 2023

Istana in The Times Luxx Magazine

In late 2022, The Times's Luxx Magazine looked inside a discreet corner of the recovery world: the clinics treating executives and ultra-wealthy individuals for whom burnout had become an occupational hazard. John Naish's piece, Burnout Clinics for Billionaire CEOs, surveyed the small field of operators working at this level. Istana…

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Rehabilitation

August 16, 2022

What is a Luxury Rehab?

The term luxury rehab was coined around twenty years ago to describe something genuinely radical at the time: a new way of treating mood disorders and substance dependence that looked nothing like what existed before. What luxury rehab originally meant Until then, there were essentially two options — hospital-style clinics…

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Treatment

July 24, 2022

What is Drug Addiction?

Drug addiction — known clinically as substance use disorder — is a pattern of drug use that continues despite causing real harm to a person's health, relationships or responsibilities. It is a recognised medical condition, not a question of willpower or character, and it affects people across every walk of…

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Treatment

July 24, 2022

Why One-To-One Treatment Works

Istana's single-client model is built on a simple clinical conviction: that the people we treat recover better when everything is arranged around them alone. Here is why. Treatment built around you, not a template You arrive with your own history, your own circumstances and your own reasons for being here.…

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Istana's confidential Bali rehabilitation retreat

Testimonial Treatment

July 12, 2022

Becca’s Letter

A client wrote to us on her flight home, a few weeks after leaving Bali. She offered it for others to read, and gave her permission to share it. We have changed nothing. Dear Ian and Emily, I am sorry it has taken a while to write this, I have…

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Treatment

January 24, 2022

Is Addiction a Disease?

Addiction as a disease Addiction is a complex disease, shaped by biological, psychological, social and cultural factors at once. You might be genetically predisposed to it, only for that predisposition to be drawn out by your environment, your community, or a relentlessly stressful working life. Your particular biology and your…

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