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A place for the heart: A journey in the post-asylum landscape. Metaphors and materiality.
Inger Beate LarsenAlain Toporsubject
Hospitals PsychiatricMateriality (auditing)Health (social science)NorwayMental DisordersGeography Planning and DevelopmentPublic Health Environmental and Occupational Health030227 psychiatryLocal community03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicineAestheticsMetaphorSocial Work PsychiatricDaily livingHumans030212 general & internal medicineSociologySocial scienceAnthropology CulturalDeinstitutionalizationdescription
The downsizing of psychiatric hospitals has created a new institutional landscape in the local community to support people with severe mental problems in their daily living. This study explores meeting places in Norway from the users' perspectives. The users used four metaphors to describe these meeting places: "like a home", "like a family", "like a landing ground" and "like a trampoline". The users have decorated the interiors of the meeting places with hearts made from various materials, and these could be considered as symbols of the places. The metaphors used: the hearts and the rooms and interiors, reflect old ideas about calmness and dignity rather than new ideas based on New Public Management.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-09-07 | Healthplace |