The Moral Life of Doors in an Open Psychiatric Center

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ID4767253
AuthorsAriane D’hoop (0000-0002-5093-3867, University of Amsterdam, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume41
Issue1
Pages67-80
Publication date2022-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMedical Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0145-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-5882
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01459740.2021.1992404
PMID34780310
OpenAlexW3211410417
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited22

Doors are infamous in psychiatry for being used as instruments of constraint. Yet, while taking a close look at the doors of an open psychiatric center for teenagers in Brussels, I discover that doors play much more ambivalent roles beyond the issue of access and that their normativity shifts in the ongoing practice of care. While examining the moral life of these doors, I describe four modes of reflexivity that unfold with them. These reflexive modes are central to care work, since they put fraught issues on the table and enable a more livable everyday togetherness in institutional care

Ambivalence · Center (category theory · Doors · Everyday life · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics · Engineering · Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints · Law · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Psychology

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