Healing architecture and psychiatric practice
(Re)ordering work and space in an in-patient ward in Denmark
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2249644 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thorben P Simonsen (0000-0002-4697-9010, Department of Organization Copenhagen Business School Frederiksberg Denmark, corresponding author), Cameron Duff (0000-0002-9792-0385, Centre for People, Organisation and Work RMIT University Melbourne VIC Australia) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 379-392 |
| Publication date | 2020-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-9566.13011 |
| PMID | 31657031 |
| OpenAlex | W2982137572 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 34 |
Healing architecture is a defining feature of contemporary hospital design in many parts of the world, with psychiatric in-patient facilities in Denmark at the forefront of this innovation. The approach rests on the contention that designed clinical spaces and the particular dispositions they express may promote patient recovery. Although the idea that health may be spatially mediated is well-established, the means of this mediation are far from settled. This article contributes to this debate by analysing medical encounters in the context of a new purpose-built psychiatric hospital opened in Slagelse, Denmark in late 2015 as an example of healing architecture for the region. Grounded in qualitative research conducted in two wards between 2016 and 2017, we explore the key material and social effects of the hospital's healing architecture, and the spaces and practices it enacts. Following the work of Michael Lynch, we consider both the designed 'spatial order' of the in-patient wards and the 'spatial orderings' unfolding therein with a particular interest in how order is accomplished in psychiatric work. With much of the existing discussion of healing architectures focusing on their impacts on patient wellbeing, we consider how healing architectures may also be transforming psychiatric work
Context (archaeology) · Mediation · Psychiatric hospital · Psychiatry · Social science · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Visual arts · Work (physics) · Architecture · Computer Science · Engineering · Health, psychology, and well-being · History · Medicine · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Nursing · Psychology · Urban Green Space and Health
Psychiatric Care as an Other-than-Human Entanglement
Stuck in separation
Re-grounding the concept of liminality by foregrounding spatial aspects in experiences of cancer care
You can feel it in the air”
Vitality and nature in psychiatric spaces
Architecture of Person-Centered Psychiatric Geriatric Hospitals
Wellbeing as social care
Mutual visibility and interaction
Moving Beyond Clinical Imaginaries
Ethnomethodology and Ethnography
Scientific Practice and Ordinary Action
Therapeutic Landscapes in Hospital Design
Studies in ethnomethodology
Mundane Governance
Care in Practice
From therapeutic landscapes to healthy spaces, places and practices
Healing architecture
Networks, resources and agencies
Geographies of health in nursing
From medical to health geography
Regions, Networks and Fluids
(Re)thinking the dynamics between healthcare and place
Order with Things? Humans, Artifacts, and the Sociological Problem of Rule‐Following
Agents and spectres
Compassionate containment? Balancing technical safety and therapy in the design of psychiatric wards
Understanding and representing 'place' in health research
Laboratory Space and the Technological Complex
Geographies of care
The permeable institution
Isolation or interaction
Afterword
Conceptualising 'materialities of care
Care in place
Architecture and health care
When the field is a ward or a clinic
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |