ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses health promotion between subjective experience and the objective distribution of power and resources embedded in everyday life, albeit from the perspective of therapeutic settings. It explains health promotion in the relationship between the individual and social events in the physical environment of the setting and everyday life in which an individual takes part emotionally and physically. An individual experiences self as part of a social event in which a health-specific sense of meaning is constantly restaged in performative practices. The chapter examines setting as the interaction between material conditions, discourses and the emotional-physical participation of an individual in social events. The three settings have three relevant features in common: they demonstrate phenomena that can be assigned to the construct of schizophrenia; the social community plays a central role; and in the therapeutic treatment, spiritual dimensions are relevant.
