ABSTRACT
[I]t is now possible to identify a small field of geographical studies tackling various aspects of how space, place, environment and landscape impact upon people with mental health problems. A simple distinction here, albeit not a rigid one, can be drawn between these studies concerned with geographies of mental ill-health and those concerned with geographies of mental health facilities: the former concentrating on links between sufferers of mental ill-health and where they live, work and move, and the latter concentrating on ramifications of where facilities designed to treat sufferers are physically located.
