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Mental Health and Social Space: Towards Inclusionary Geographies
Contributor(s): Parr, Hester (Author)
ISBN: 1405168927     ISBN-13: 9781405168922
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
OUR PRICE:   $42.51  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 2008
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Annotation: In the nineteenth century, 'the mad' were segregated in special asylum spaces; in the later twentieth century, these spaces were dismantled and patients discharged into the community. Now, in the twenty-first century, 'community care' is still in vogue, but what has happened to the people with mental health problems? Stories of neglect, ghettoization, homicide and reinstitutionalization regularly litter the pages of newspapers and academic journals. Is this the whole story? Are those with severe and enduring mental health problems still living on the edges of society?

This book illuminates the complicated reality of people living with mental health problems. It focuses on their voices, relationships and achievements through case studies tracing innovative examples of community activity that are creating versions of social tolerance, social recovery and peer and self-help for this consistently marginalized group. People with mental health problems are active in rescripting their own social recoveries, using different community spaces to create pathways to psychological and social stability.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Mental Health
- Social Science | Human Geography
Dewey: 362.2
LCCN: 2007026742
Series: RGS-IBG Books (Paperback)
Physical Information: 0.66" H x 6.2" W x 8.94" (0.75 lbs) 224 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
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 acceptance
  • Brings to the fore the voices of, lives, capacities and difficulties facing people with mental health problems
  • Imaginatively differentiates rural, urban, interest and technological communities, disrupting familiar and conventional accounts of social inclusion and 'the local'
  • Demonstrates how people with mental health problems are active in re-scripting their own social recoveries through their use and understanding of different social spaces