Hester Parr

eBook, ePUB

Mental Health and Social Space (eBook, ePUB)

Towards Inclusionary Geographies?

Beschreibung

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

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Autor

Hester Parr is Reader in Human Geography at the University of Dundee. She has worked on questions of mental health for over ten years, publishing in a range of journals, including Society and Space, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Area, Health and Place and Social and Cultural Geography.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444399691
• Artikelnr.: 38308304

Rezensionen

"Hester Parr's book delivers a welcome and unusually close-upengagement with the practiced geographies of mental health." (Area,December 2010)

"This inspiring book offers a highly original account of thesocial spaces created and inhabited by people with mental healthproblems. Hester Parr paints a vivid picture, which foregroundshopeful possibilities for empowerment and integration. It will beinvaluable to anyone seeking to understand mental (ill) health inthe twenty-first century."
Liz Bondi, University of Edinburgh

"Parr's efforts to advance a 'cautiousoptimism"'about the lived social geographies of people withmental health problems, based on rich empirical material andthoughtful conceptual articulation, make this an essential read foranyone interested in the changing social geographies of mentalhealth. The book also has considerable relevance for broaderdebates about social inclusion and active citizenship incontemporary Western societies."
Robert Wilton, McMaster University

"Parr has ... redefine[ed] 'the mentalpatient', a crucial undertaking if social citizenship forpeople with mental illness is to become an enduring reality."Metapsychology

"This book could appeal to psychologists who enjoyrelevant work in other disciplines, who find ideas of people likeFreud and Foucault interesting, and who value small casestudies." PsycCritiques