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New spaces of inpatient care for people with mental illness: A complex ‘rebirth’ of the clinic?
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Health & Place . Mar2009, Vol. 15 Issue 1, p340-348. 9p. - Publication Year :
- 2009
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Abstract
- Abstract: This paper examines the implications for design of inpatient settings of community-based models of care and treatment of mental illness. The study draws on ideas from relational geographies and expands interpretations based on Foucault''s writing. We analyse material from a case study which explored the views of patients, consultants, and other staff from a new Psychiatric Inpatient Unit in a deprived area of East London, UK. We discuss in particular: the tension between providing a caring and supportive institutional environment and ensuring that patients are returned to the community when they are ready; the links between an acute inpatient facility and its local community; the potential significance of the psychiatric hospital as a relatively stable feature in the otherwise insecure and unpredictable geographical experience of people with long-term mental illnesses. We discuss the relevance of these issues for design of new psychiatric inpatient facilities. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
- Subjects :
- *MEDICAL geography
*MENTAL illness treatment
*HOSPITAL care
*PSYCHIATRIC hospitals
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13538292
- Volume :
- 15
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Health & Place
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 34981835
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2008.06.007