VERSTEEGH-CELLIER Catherine, VERSTEEGH Pieter.
Alcoves. Mental health care and architecture: from isolation to living.
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| N° d'inventaire | 25166 |
| Format | 16.5 x 23.5 |
| Détails | 413 p., numerous color illustrations, paperback. |
| Publication | Gollion, 2021 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782889680238 |
This is a new challenge for psychiatry: revisited architecture can contribute to psychological care. The construction of human identity is always a corollary of their lifestyles, and their psychological construction is not independent of their habitat.
We must therefore consider the institution as a place intended to be inhabited, in the broadest sense of the term. This is a matter of a systemic relationship between patients, caregivers, and spaces.
To understand how all this comes together, we must first look back at what happens when we are "born into the world," how we learn about our body, our consciousness, and our environment, what "I am" means to us, then "I am here," and finally "this is where I belong," so that we can say "this is where I want to be." Because when this process breaks down, strangeness and wandering, domiciliary nomadism, occur, experienced by many psychiatric patients, but also by many other people who are not known to the healthcare networks.
Architectural practice can be restorative. On three conditions: improving the hospitalization conditions of psychiatric patients in their physical environment and optimizing their therapeutic opportunities; a better understanding of the challenges of human habitat; and an enrichment of nursing care and architectural practices.
We must therefore consider the institution as a place intended to be inhabited, in the broadest sense of the term. This is a matter of a systemic relationship between patients, caregivers, and spaces.
To understand how all this comes together, we must first look back at what happens when we are "born into the world," how we learn about our body, our consciousness, and our environment, what "I am" means to us, then "I am here," and finally "this is where I belong," so that we can say "this is where I want to be." Because when this process breaks down, strangeness and wandering, domiciliary nomadism, occur, experienced by many psychiatric patients, but also by many other people who are not known to the healthcare networks.
Architectural practice can be restorative. On three conditions: improving the hospitalization conditions of psychiatric patients in their physical environment and optimizing their therapeutic opportunities; a better understanding of the challenges of human habitat; and an enrichment of nursing care and architectural practices.
We must therefore consider the institution as a place intended to be inhabited, in the broadest sense of the term. This is a matter of a systemic relationship between patients, caregivers, and spaces.
To understand how all this comes together, we must first look back at what happens when we are "born into the world," how we learn about our body, our consciousness, and our environment, what "I am" means to us, then "I am here," and finally "this is where I belong," so that we can say "this is where I want to be." Because when this process breaks down, strangeness and wandering, domiciliary nomadism, occur, experienced by many psychiatric patients, but also by many other people who are not known to the healthcare networks.
Architectural practice can be restorative. On three conditions: improving the hospitalization conditions of psychiatric patients in their physical environment and optimizing their therapeutic opportunities; a better understanding of the challenges of human habitat; and an enrichment of nursing care and architectural practices.