ABSTRACT
This is the first volume of papers devoted to an examination of the relationship between mental health/illness and the construction and experience of space. This historical analysis with contributions from leading experts will enlighten and intrigue in equal measure. The first rigorous scholarly analysis of its kind in book form, it will be of particular interest to the history, psychiatry and architecture communities.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|65 pages
Madhouses, asylums, and hospitals in context
chapter 2|21 pages
Site and vantage
Sculptural decoration and spatial experience in early modern Dutch asylums
chapter 4|19 pages
Placing psychiatric practices
On the spatial configurations and contests of professional labour in late-nineteenth century Germany
part II|66 pages
Case studies in psychiatric space
chapter 6|26 pages
Scaling the asylum
Three geographies of the Inverness District Lunatic Asylum (Craig Dunain)
part III|41 pages
Beyond the institution
chapter 8|20 pages
Architectures of madness
Informal and formal spaces of treatment and care in nineteenth-century New Jersey
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chapter 9|19 pages
Community spaces and psychiatric family care in Belgium, France, and Germany
A comparative study
part IV|48 pages
Race and space in colonial asylums
part V|46 pages
Architects and institutions
chapter 12|21 pages
The modern mental hospital in late nineteenth-century Germany and Austria
Psychiatric space and images of freedom and control
chapter 13|22 pages
The architect and the pauper asylum in late nineteenth-century England
G. T. Hine's 1901 review of asylum space and planning
part VI|36 pages
Spatial players
chapter 14|18 pages
Controlling space, transforming visibility
Psychiatrists, nursing staff, violence, and the case of haematoma auris in German psychiatry c. 1830 to 1870
chapter 15|16 pages
'A small corner that's for myself'
Space, place, and patients' experiences of mental health care, 1948-98
