Mapping Personal Geographies in Psychosis: From Space to Place.

ABSTRACT: Recently, there has been a growing interest in the interaction between the urban milieu and the development of psychosis. While growing up in an urban environment constitutes a risk factor for developing psychosis, patients who develop a first episode of psychosis tend to avoid city centers and suffer from isolation. These observations have fostered emerging interest in ways of developing contexts in cities that are favorable to mental health and that may help service users in their paths to recovery. Building on work on place attachment as well as systemic therapy, we present a new approach to map the urban spaces experienced by service users. We propose two tools, the "place attachment diagram" and "life space network," to situate emotional bond and spatial dimension respectively at thei

SUBMITTER: Baumann PS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11206046 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature