Mental Health and Social Space

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Through a series of case studies this book brings to the fore thevoices, lives, and capacities of people with mental health problemsas well as the difficulties they face. It effectively demonstratesthe ways people with mental health problems are active inre-scripting versions of social recovery through their use of verydifferent community spaces. * * Offers a 'hopeful epistemology' not typically found in mentalhealth-related research * Interrogates neo-liberal dogma that defines people with mentalhealth problems as active social citizens wholly responsible fortheir own recoveries and acceptance * Brings to the fore the voices of, lives, capacities anddifficulties facing people with mental health problems * Imaginatively differentiates rural, urban, interest andtechnological communities, disrupting familiar and conventionalaccounts of social inclusion and 'the local' * Demonstrates how people with mental health problems are activein re-scripting their own social recoveries through their use andunderstanding of different social spaces

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Hester Parr

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"Hester Parr's book delivers a welcome and unusually close-upengagement with the practiced geographies of mental health. Inparticular it seeks to extend our grasp of how individuals withmental health problems feel; how they relate to community,citizenship and how they contribute to the constitution of theirsocial spaces". (Area Book Reviews, 2010)"Hester Parr's bookdelivers a welcome and unusually close-up engagement with thepracticed 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
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