Mental Health And Social Space Towards Inclusionary Geographies Hester Parrauth by Hester Parr(auth.) 9780470712924, 9781405168939, 0470712929, 1405168935 instant download after payment.

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 spacesContent:
Chapter 1 Geographies of Difference: Understanding Mental (Ill) Health and Social Space (pages 1–30):
Chapter 2 Placing Mental Health: Community, Inclusion and Citizenship (pages 31–56):
Chapter 3 Cultural Landscapes: Rural Communities and Mental Health (pages 57–79):
Chapter 4 Therapeutic Natures? Urban Gardening, Citizenship and Social Inclusion (pages 80–105):
Chapter 5 Artistic Spaces: The Arts and Mental Health (pages 106–134):
Chapter 6 Virtual Communities: The Internet and Online Geographies of Self?Help (pages 135–161):
Chapter 7 Conclusion: Innovative Geographies of Mental Health (pages 162–184):