ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book focuses on an in-depth description of belonging, therapeutic landscapes, and networks. It also focuses on to the positive and affirming dimensions of belonging. But it bears emphasizing from time to time that there are many individuals placed in unusual situations where the connection between belonging and the place occupied routinely by the individual is tenuous. The book illustrates this point, particularly the ones dealing with migration and with prisons and secure psychiatric hospital environments. Scholars in disparate disciplines have been exploring the connecting of place and the inner lives of people for some time, particularly in medical and cultural geography and medical anthropology. The expanding meaning of therapeutic landscapes has meant that therapists' think more carefully about the longitudinal experiences of individuals, about the multiple spaces occupy in different periods of the year and even in any given day or week.
