The Slightest Attachment: When Psychiatric Spaces Enact Affinities

d'Hoop, Ariane
(2023) ISBN: [978-3-8376-6556-7], 186 pages, published

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While the disciplinary architecture of hospitals has long prevailed in psychiatry, many care teams now work in smaller structures, within communities. This book takes us into one of these places. Drawing on fieldwork in a psychiatric day center for teenagers, it traces how spatial arrangements matter in the care practice: from a corner in which one can withdraw, to a kitchen inviting to hang around, or displayed artworks that pique one’s curiosity, caregivers use the material environment to stir up the slightest affinity from teenagers. In this way, this book expands our idea of what an attachment is, and makes us more able to recognize the subtle dynamics between care, things, and spaces.
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d’Hoop, A. (2023). The Slightest Attachment: When Psychiatric Spaces Enact Affinities (1ere édition). Transcript Verlag. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/274752