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Autore: | Parr Hester |
Titolo: | Mental health and social space : towards inclusionary geographies? / / Hester Parr |
Pubblicazione: | Malden, MA : , : Blackwell Publishing, , 2008 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (226 p.) |
Disciplina: | 362.2 |
Soggetto topico: | Mentally ill - Rehabilitation |
Mentally ill - Deinstitutionalization | |
Community mental health services | |
Mentally ill - Social networks | |
Social psychiatry | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Mental health and social space |
ISBN: | 1-4443-9969-1 |
1-281-84071-8 | |
9786611840716 | |
0-470-71292-9 | |
0-470-71267-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 996217061203316 |
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