Smith, L.-A. and Tucker, I. M. (2015) “Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know”: the pervasive socio-medical and spatial coding of mental health day centres. Emotion, Space and Society. 14 1755-4586.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Abstract: | In a research area typically dominated by the biomedical field, this paper seeks to explore the emotional experiences of long-term, mental health service users who attend charitable day centres. Academic literature has predominantly focussed on a macro-analysis of the social, political and geographical position of those with mental health distress. Subsequently, service users have been positioned as a largely homogenous group who mainly reside on the boundaries of social integration due to the negative social representations of mental health impairment. These postulations can advocate a romanticised notion of how service users engage in consensual and non-judgemental social norms in terms of social inclusion of those within therapeutic spaces. Thus, indicating that a high level of mutual camaraderie exists within a day centre. However, this approach can negate the realities encountered by service users on a daily basis whereby differing medical ascriptions such as ‘depression’ and ‘schizophrenia’ can not only influence a service user’s own self-identity and behaviour but ultimately, the acceptance of other members. In conclusion, this work indicates that rather than a discrete linear position between the ‘otherness’ of mental health distress and ‘normative’ human geographies, this area remains a complex phenomenon with levels of diversity when linked to diagnostic criteria. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Mental health, psychiatric diagnosis, day centre spaces, spinoza, exclusion, inclusion, schizophrenia, depression, affect |
| Creators: | Smith, Lesley-Ann and Tucker, Ian M |
| Faculties, Divisions and Institutes: | Faculties > Faculty of Health & Society > Psychology |
| Date: | 1 February 2015 |
| Date Type: | Publication |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Emotion, Space and Society |
| Volume: | 14 |
| Language: | English |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2014.10.002 |
| ISSN: | 1755-4586 |
| Status: | Published / Disseminated |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| URI: | http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/id/eprint/10990 |
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