Becoming at Home in Residential Care for Older People: A Material Culture Perspective

Lovatt, Melanie

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“…Yet, the work of healing is not limited to the clinic, and a recent series of publications has illuminated the 'materialities of care' ) that facilitate practices centered on health and illness in diverse settings. Whether in museums and botanical gardens (Mangione 2018), residential homes (Lovatt 2018) or planned (Jones 2018) and actual hospitals (Bell 2018), these scholars have shown how objects previously overlookedchairs in a waiting room (Bell 2018) or clothing (Buse and Twigg 2018)can shed light on the moments when care is given, received, withheld, negotiated and shared. Taken together, these works persuasively demonstrate that ignoring materiality and place would give us only a partial understanding of healthcare work (see also, Martin et al 2015).…”

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The place of therapy: between lab and field in the psychoanalytic office

Crăciun

2019

Sociology Health & Illness

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This article builds on recent scholarship in medicine, science and technology illuminating the role of place and materiality in medical work. Drawing on ethnographic observations and qualitative interviews with US psychiatrists, psychologists and clinical social workers, I examine how the therapy office shapes psychoanalytic psychotherapists’ efforts to understand their patients’ unconscious conflicts. The concepts of ‘laboratory’ and ‘field’ frame my discussion of the material set up of the clinical room and the relational practices it fosters. I show that psychoanalytic practitioners try to approximate ‘laboratory conditions’ that insulate patients’ problems from their everyday contexts and ensure a sense of stability. I also demonstrate that these clinicians’ work depends on revealing personal preferences in the therapy room and fostering therapeutic relationships that resemble those in patients’ everyday lives, making the office akin to the ‘field’. The office thus becomes epistemically productive through therapists’ management of the paradoxical relationship between laboratory and field.

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Section: A Place For Truthmentioning

confidence: 99%

The place of therapy: between lab and field in the psychoanalytic office

Crăciun

2019

Sociology Health & Illness

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Decisions and decision-makers: Mapping the sociotechnical cognition behind home energy upgrades in the United States

Biswas,

Fuentes,

McCord

et al. 2024

Energy Research & Social Science

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What does ‘feeling at home’ mean for adults with intellectual disabilities living in group homes in England?

Chinn,

Levitan,

Power

et al. 2024

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BackgroundShared housing for adults with intellectual disabilities with staff support, is a common housing model internationally. We explored an overlooked aspect of group homes, namely the extent to which they enable a sense of ‘feeling at home’ for residents.MethodA diverse group of 19 housemates participated in a photovoice study. Participants took photos in their homes and discussed them in individual interviews and in groups. Data was analysed using reflexive thematic analysis.ResultsResidents' experience of home was multi‐dimensional. ‘Feeling at home’ related to home as a site of identity cultivation (personal home); physical comfort or ‘misfitting’ (physical home) and home as the locus of key relationships (social home).ConclusionAchieving a sense of ‘feeling at home’ requires engagement in practices of home‐making. Many of our participants required support from staff to engage in these practices. For some housemates their experience of home was conditional and precarious.

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Becoming at Home in Residential Care for Older People: A Material Culture Perspective

Cited by 3 publications

References 42 publications

The place of therapy: between lab and field in the psychoanalytic office

The place of therapy: between lab and field in the psychoanalytic office

Decisions and decision-makers: Mapping the sociotechnical cognition behind home energy upgrades in the United States

What does ‘feeling at home’ mean for adults with intellectual disabilities living in group homes in England?

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