ABSTRACT
The Handbook of Mental Health and Space brings together the psychosocial work on experiences of space and mental distress, making explicit the links between theoretical work and clinical and community practice. The change from an institutional to community care model of mental health services can be seen as a fundamental spatial change in the lives of service users, and the book aims to to stimulate discussion about mental healthcare spaces and their design.With contributions from those involved in theorizing space, those drawing on their own experiences of distress and space, as well as practitioners working on the ground,the book will be of interest to mental health practitioners and academics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|80 pages
Institutional spaces
chapter 1|11 pages
Regulation and Resistance in the Smoking Room at a Mental Health Ward
chapter 3|19 pages
Children’s Spaces of Mental Health
chapter 4|14 pages
Negotiating Adult Authority
part II|117 pages
Community spaces
chapter 8|14 pages
Bursting Bubbles of Interiority
chapter 9|14 pages
Caring Spaces and Practices
chapter 10|17 pages
Spaces of ‘Sanctuary’
chapter 13|20 pages
Walking through and being with Nature
part III|73 pages
Interventions in space and place