Mental Health and Social Space - 9781405168939

Mental Health and Social SpaceTowards Inclusionary Geographies?\nAuthor(s): Hester Parr\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Wiley-Blackwell\nISBN-13: 9781405168939, 978-1405168939\nSynopsis\nThrough 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.\n\nOffers a 'hopeful epistemology' not typically found in mental health-related research\nInterrogates neo-liberal dogma that defines people with mental health problems as active social citizens wholly responsible for their own recoveries and acceptance\nBrings to the fore the voices of, lives, capacities and difficulties facing people with mental health problems\nImaginatively differentiates rural, urban,s