Crossroads Poetics: Glissant and Ethnography

Kullberg, Christina

doi:10.1353/cal.2013.0193

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“…The data collection process included an ethnography approach, and the researcher was included as a participant observer (Kullberg, 1996; Pálsdoóttir et al, 2014). Ethnography can also include shorter periods of observation—micro ethnography (Adevi, 2012; Bryman, 2008; Pálsdóttir et al, 2014), which was the case with this study.…”

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Development of Evidence-Based Rehabilitation Practice in Botanical Garden for People With Mental Health Disorders

Trkulja

Tomićević-Dubljević

Toševski

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Aim: This article aims to make clearer, with supporting evidence, the clinical benefits of the nature-based rehabilitation program (NBRP) and the restorative values of visiting botanical garden for people with stress-related mental disorders. Background: Throughout the years, nature-based therapy has been acknowledged as a valuable rehabilitation practice that integrates specially designed natural environments and nature-related activities for people with mental health conditions. Subject and Methods: The comparative analyses of parallel conducted the NBRP at botanical garden and occupational therapy realised at the Day Hospital of the Institute of Mental Health in Belgrade included 27 participants divided into two groups. The data collection employed a mixed method combining a Clinical Global Impression (CGI) Scale and on-site observations. Results: The positive findings on the psychological recovery of the participants seem to be related to NBRP. The restorative potential of the garden was recognized through the observed interaction between participants and the natural entities employed through the various themed activities. The observed landscape elements especially solitary plant specimens or tall and single-form trees within the garden can be embraced as design guidelines for the development of an evidence-based practice that can support the recovery process of people with mental health conditions. Conclusion: Our findings endorse that ongoing social development and progressive urbanization have broadened the interest in scientific research involving nature-based solutions that help preserve the physical and mental health of people in low- and middle-income Western Balkan countries with a high prevalence of mental disorders in the urban environment that relates to social inequalities and natural disasters.

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Development of Evidence-Based Rehabilitation Practice in Botanical Garden for People With Mental Health Disorders

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Tomićević-Dubljević

Toševski

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Opacity, difference and not knowing: what can psychiatry learn from the work of Édouard Glissant?

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2024

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Martinican poet, novelist and cultural theorist Édouard Glissant (1928–2011) rejected contemporary simplistic notions of creole hybridity popularised in the 1980s and 1990s in favour of a unique and explicitly antiessentialist construct of Caribbeanness—a form of being that embraces place while shunning any associated ideas of rootednesss. Throughout his work, there is a constant tension between the local and the global, the particular and the universal, the essentialist and the homogenising, a tension that is never resolved but used creatively to stake out an emergent third position against a backdrop of a metaphorical Caribbean seascape. The purpose of this article is to shed light on a central idea developed by Glissant: the importance of acknowledging opacity in the encounter with the Other, in contrast to idealised notions of transparency as inherently desirable. This ‘right to opacity’ has been embraced in poststructural theory, postcolonial activism and contemporary art. However, I argue that opacity is also a highly relevant notion in clinical contexts, as an essential resource for understanding concepts such as first-person, second-person and third-person perspectives in the phenomenology of mental health and illness. For illustration, I point to a number of clinical tools and approaches—such as the Cultural Formulation Interview, Therapeutic Assessment and the employment of a not-knowing stance in mentalisation-based treatment—that successfully incorporate a respect for opacity as a core value in the clinician-patient encounter. This article is not an attempt to offer a definitive how-to guide on how to make use of the ideas of Édouard Glissant in the clinic; instead, I hope to inspire further discussion about how various notions of opacity and transparency come into play for mental health practitioners and how acknowledging alterity and difference may contribute to more fruitful and respectful ways of engaging with the patient-as-Other.

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Crossroads Poetics: Glissant and Ethnography

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Development of Evidence-Based Rehabilitation Practice in Botanical Garden for People With Mental Health Disorders

Development of Evidence-Based Rehabilitation Practice in Botanical Garden for People With Mental Health Disorders

Poetry on the edge

Opacity, difference and not knowing: what can psychiatry learn from the work of Édouard Glissant?

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