The Handbook of Mental Health and Space: Community and Clinical Applications

This handbook gathers psychosocial work on people's experience of space and mental distress. It makes the links between theory and practice explicit, so that ideas about space can inform clinical work and community support.

One major theme is the move from institutional care to community-based mental health services, which changes the physical setting of daily life for service users. The book discusses how mental healthcare spaces are designed and what that design means for the people who use them.

Its contributors include scholars who theorise space, people who draw on their own experience of distress, and practitioners working on the ground. The book will interest mental health practitioners and academics alike. Routledge published this first edition in 2018. It runs to 318 pages. ISBN-13: 9781138643932.