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Social geographies of rural mental health

Experiencing inclusions and exclusions

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ID8964358
AuthorsHayden Lorimer (0000-0003-3004-4891, University of Dundee, corresponding author), Hester Parr (0000-0002-1590-5027), C Philo (0000-0002-2514-4604), Nicola Burns (0000-0003-4764-9731, University of Glasgow)
Year2004
Volume29
Issue4
Pages401-419
Publication date2004-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-2754 • E-ISSN: 1475-5661
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.0020-2754.2004.00138.x
OpenAlexW2123168923
LanguageEN
Citations received83
References cited47

A dominant urban focus in previous research on the social geographies of mental health has obscured the experiences of people with mental health problems living in rural localities. Critiquing this urban focus, we report on research conducted in the rural and remote Scottish Highlands. Evidence derived from in‐depth interviews with over 100 users of psychiatric services in the Highlands is deployed to investigate the complex socio‐spatial dynamics of inclusion and exclusion experienced by these users on a daily basis. A discussion of the explanations that users themselves offer of their experiences is accompanied by a theoretical framing of these issues pivoting on relations of proximity–distance and intimacy–repulsion

Focus (optics · Focus group · Framing (construction · Geography · Inclusion (mineral · Inclusion–exclusion principle · Lived experience · Mental health · Political science · Psychiatry · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Health disparities and outcomes · Homelessness and Social Issues · Psychology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

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