Mental Health and Social Space: Towards Inclusionary Geographies?ISBN: 978-1-4051-6892-2
Paperback
224 pages
February 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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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