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TY - JOUR
T1 - Social geographies of rural mental health: experiencing inclusions and exclusions
AU - Parr, Hester
AU - Philo, Chris
AU - Burns, Nicola
PY - 2004/12/1
Y1 - 2004/12/1
N2 - 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 usersthemselvesoffer of their experiences is accompanied by a theoretical framing of these issues pivoting on relations of proximity distance and intimacy repulsion.
AB - 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 usersthemselvesoffer of their experiences is accompanied by a theoretical framing of these issues pivoting on relations of proximity distance and intimacy repulsion.
KW - Community Mental Health Services
KW - Highlands (Scotland)
KW - Human Geography
KW - Mental Health
KW - Rural Health Services
KW - Rural Mental Health Services,
KW - Scotland
U2 - 10.1111/j.0020-2754.2004.00138.x
DO - 10.1111/j.0020-2754.2004.00138.x
M3 - Journal article
VL - 29
SP - 401
EP - 419
JO - Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
JF - Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
SN - 0020-2754
IS - 4
ER -