Geopsychiatry from below

Exploratory review and preliminary analysis

Bibliographic Data

ID20675615
AuthorsCheryl Mcgeachan (0000-0001-7476-6218, University of Glasgow, corresponding author), C Philo (0000-0002-2514-4604, University of Glasgow)
Year2025
Volume71
Issue5
Pages820-834
Publication date2025-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Social Psychiatry (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-7640 • E-ISSN: 1741-2854
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00207640251317017
PMID39995172
OpenAlexW4407927756
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited66

BACKGROUND: This contribution advances claims about 'geopsychiatry from below', attending to how 'voices' with lived experience of mental ill-health speak about 'the geo' or, more specifically, 'place and space'. AIMS: To explore relevant interdisciplinary literature for academic research, scholarship and commentary containing voices of experience speaking about the geo. METHODS: An 'indicative' and 'facilitative' review of relevant transdisciplinary literature in arts and humanities and social science, alongside an exploratory workshop where materials are analysed and relationships detected and, provisionally, mapped. RESULTS: The literature review discloses no coherent body of studies into the geo from below, but rather a fragmented amalgam of materials-field observations, primary quotes and occasional elaborations-that are rarely the direct focus of inquiry (except in some contributions by academic geographers). Combining the literature review and the workshop analysis, an outline series of prompts are developed for relating 'Kinds of Places', their associated 'Affective Qualities' and actual spaces and places on the ground. CONCLUSIONS: This study signals what a geopsychiatry from below might entail, providing important foundations for future transdisciplinary work on 'the geo' and mental (ill-)health

Field (mathematics) · Interdisciplinarity · Mental health · Political science · Psychotherapist · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · The arts · Visual arts · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought · Psychology · Therapeutic Uses of Natural Elements

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