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Record Nr.

UNINA9910144107503321

Autore

Parr Hester

Titolo

Mental health and social space : towards inclusionary geographies? / / Hester Parr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA : , : Blackwell Publishing, , 2008

ISBN

1-4443-9969-1

1-281-84071-8

9786611840716

0-470-71292-9

0-470-71267-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226 p.)

Collana

RGS-IBG book series

Disciplina

362.2

Soggetti

Mentally ill - Rehabilitation

Mentally ill - Deinstitutionalization

Community mental health services

Mentally ill - Social networks

Social psychiatry

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Geographies of difference: understanding mental (ill) health and social space -- Placing mental health: community, inclusion and citizenship -- Cultural landscapes: rural communities and mental health -- Therapeutic natures? urban gardening, citizenship and social inclusion -- Artistic spaces: the arts and mental health -- Virtual communities: the Internet and online geographies of self-help -- Conclusion: innovative geographies of mental health.

Sommario/riassunto

Through a series of case studies this book brings to the fore the voices, lives, and capacities of people with mental health problems as well as the difficulties they face. It effectively demonstrates the ways people with mental health problems are active in re-scripting versions of social recovery through their use of very different community spaces.:.; Offers a 'hopeful epistemology' not typically found in mental health-related



research.; Interrogates neo-liberal dogma that defines people with mental health problems as active social citizens wholly responsible for their own recoveries and ac