Health, healing and recovery: Therapeutic landscapes and the everyday lives of breast cancer survivors

English, Jennifer; Wilson, Kathi; Keller-Olaman, Sue

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.03.043

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“…The notion of therapeutic landscape has since been employed to study experiences of healing, recovery, health, and well-being across a variety of settings (Gesler 2005;Williams 1999Williams , 2007, including hospitals and clinics (Curtis et al 2007;Wood et al 2013), respite centres (Conradson 2005), hospice day care locations (Moore et al 2013), community gardens (Milligan et al 2004), yoga studios (Hoyez 2007), and places of day-to-day routines such as home (Dyck and Dossa 2007;English et al 2008;Martin et al 2005;Williams 2002). These studies highlight how 'physical and built environments, social conditions and human perceptions combine to produce a [therapeutic] atmosphere' (Gesler 1996, 96).…”

Section: Therapeutic Landscapes and Homementioning

confidence: 99%

“…This relational aspect of therapeutic landscapes means that they are actively produced through their physical design (see for example Curtis et al 2007;Wood et al 2013), discursive construction (for example, Hoyez 2007), and/or situated activities and practices (see for example Dyck and Dossa 2007;Laws 2009). How these social processes interact with the physical, social, affective, or symbolic properties of a place dictates whether or not the place is experienced as a therapeutic landscape (Conradson 2005;English et al 2008;Martin et al 2005).…”

Section: Therapeutic Landscapes and Homementioning

confidence: 99%

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Orchestrating home

Karasaki¹,

Warren²,

Manderson³

2017

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The private space of the home is an important site of health care in most industrialised countries, and rehabilitation following intensive in-hospital treatment largely takes place in domestic settings. Home in this context is implicitly understood by individuals affected by illness (people with illness, family members, friends, carers), health care providers, and policy makers as an a priori entity that naturally provides continuity and stability. This takes for granted that family carers will maintain both therapeutic activities and the sense of 'being at home' -and all of the accompanying emotional dimensions -within the home environment. Drawing on ethnographic research with relatively young spousal carers in Victoria, Australia, we explore how the reconstruction of home as a site for post-stroke recovery changed the experiences and meanings given to the idea of home. Home as a therapeutic place depended on constant orchestrating work that reconfigured the physical, symbolic, and practical elements of home. This was not a straightforward or singular process, as tensions arose in trying to integrate the new, post-stroke therapeutic landscape and pre-stroke conceptualisations and lived realities of home life.

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Section: Therapeutic Landscapes and Homementioning

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Section: Therapeutic Landscapes and Homementioning

confidence: 99%

Orchestrating home

Karasaki¹,

Warren²,

Manderson³

2017

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“…Brown (2003) noted the paradoxes involved in where terminal caregiving takes place (hospice or home) and how this impinges on meanings and emotions associated with death and dying, while Rigby et al (2014) highlight how spaces of hospice care can contribute to patient's feelings of loneliness. English et al (2008) showed how the interaction between emotions and places of care play an important role in shaping healing environments. Milligan (2005) considers the emotions experienced by informal caregivers as frail older people are obliged to move from their own homes and into care homes.…”

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‘Therapeutic landscapes’ and the importance of nostalgia, solastalgia, salvage and abandonment for psychiatric hospital design

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(2015) '`Therapeutic landscapes' and the importance of nostalgia, solastalgia, salvage and abandonment for psychiatric hospital design.', Health place., 33 . pp. 83-89. Further information on publisher's website:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace. 2015.02.010 Publisher's copyright statement: NOTICE: this is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in Health place. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A denitive version was subsequently published in Health place, 33, 2015Health place, 33, , 10.1016Health place, 33, /j.healthplace.2015 Additional information: Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Highlights:• We emphasise how emotional reactions to changes to medical spaces are important • Emotions and memories of spaces can impinge on one's present therapeutic experience • We interpret our research by using a Therapeutic landscapes framework • We relate our research to ideas about salvage and abandonment • Our research highlights recommendations for good practice in hospital design 'Therapeutic Landscapes' and the importance of nostalgia, solastalgia, salvage and abandonment for Psychiatric Hospital design. AbstractWe examine emotional reactions to changes to medical spaces of care, linked with past experiences. In this paper we draw on findings from a qualitative study of the transfer of psychiatric inpatient care from an old to a newly built facility. We show how the meanings attributed to 'therapeutic landscapes' from one's past can evoke emotions and memories, manifesting in ideas about nostalgia, solastalgia, salvage and abandonment, which can impinge on one's present therapeutic experience. We reflect on how consideration of these ideas might contribute to better future design of psychiatric inpatient facilities and the wellbeing of those using them.

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“…Denne antagelse deles af sundhedsgeografer, der blandt andet har undersøgt betydningen af rum og terapeutiske landsskaber for eksempelvis psykiatriske selvhjaelpsgrupper (Laws, 2009), alkoholikere (Wilton and DeVerteuil, 2006) og tidligere brystkraeftpatienter (English, Wilson and Keller-Olaman, 2008). Også fortalere for helende arkitektur ('healing architecture') kobler antagelser om rum med sundhed (Ulrich et al, 2008).…”

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’Dette er ikke et hospital’: Rum, følelser og professionel ekspertise/funktion i dansk kræftrehabilitering

Obling¹

2016

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Baseret på etnografisk-inspirerede feltstudier vises, at når professionelle rehabiliterings-hjaelpere IntroduktionHvert år diagnosticeres ca. 35.000 borgere med kraeft i Danmark (KB, 2015). Ved udgangen af 2012 levede der ifølge Kraeftens Bekaempelses hjemmeside 245.500 mennesker i Danmark, som tidligere havde fået stillet en kraeftdiagnose (ibid.).Mange oplever dårligt helbred efter behandling for kraeftsygdom -dette er i gennemsnit en ud af fire, som er blevet diagnosticeret med kraeft på et tidspunkt i deres liv. Undersøgelser viser, at disse helbredsproblemer eksisterer i minimum ti år efter behandling manifesteret som fx social isolation, depression, økonomiske traengsler, ustabil tilknytning til arbejdsmarkedet (Elliott m.fl., 2011; Santin m.fl., 2012). I takt med at den medicinske behandling bliver mere effektiv, og kraeft i højere grad diagnosticeres på et tidligt tidspunkt, vil vi i fremtiden komme til at se flere såkaldte kraeftoverlevere. Der er således tale om et nyt 'kraeftbillede' (MacMillan, 2015). Hvor der tidligere har vaeret et stort forskningsmaessigt og politisk fokus på diagnostik, behandling og pleje, vil dette fokus fremover komme til at inkludere den del af kraeftpatienternes forløb, hvor disse officielt er erklaeret raske af det etablerede medicinske system, men ikke føler og forstår sig selv som raske eller sunde individer. Samtidig lever flere patienter i laengere tid med en kraeftsygdom, og sygdommen kan herved have kronisk karakter. I forlaengelse af ovenstående kraeftbillede er der derfor brug for, at man begynder at se naermere på de nye organisationsformer, vi konstruerer og udvikler med henblik på at kunne rumme den stadigt voksende maengde af kraeftoverlevere og borgere, der i mange år lever med kraeftsygdom. Artiklens kobling af design, følelser og ekspertise/funktion i en konkret organisation, nemlig rehabiliteringsenheden, kan for laeseren forekomme temmelig banal. Ved første øjekast synes det for simpelt at sammenkaede disse dimensioner. Det tilføjer tilsyneladende ikke mange nye indsigter under solen til, hvad eksempelvis Goffman har vist i sin skildring af psykiske syge og afdelingsstrukturer i Asylums, hvor han portraetterer, hvordan eksterne markører former individet -fra kropslig fremtraeden til sprogbrug til ens erfaringer med selvet (Goffman, 1961).Eller som det fremgår af Foucault i Discipline and Punish, at menneskers adfaerd og optraeden dannes gennem bedømmelse og konstant justering i nogle dertil anviste områder, og at individer konstant arbejdes på fra hospitalsklinikken til skolegården til haerens barakker (Foucault, 1977). Men hvad der først og fremmest bringes frem i lyset i analysen af arkitektonisk indretning og adfaerdsregler i hervaerende artikel -gennem at tage en Elias' tilgang alvorligt -er, hvordan mennesker, så som professionelle rehabiliteringshjaelpere og borgere, der opsøger hjaelp, alle er forbundet i rehabiliteringsenheden, der udgør en kompleks social figuration, og hvilken karakter deres indbyrdes forhold har. På samme måde som Elias selv ...

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Health, healing and recovery: Therapeutic landscapes and the everyday lives of breast cancer survivors

Cited by 101 publications

References 44 publications

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‘Therapeutic landscapes’ and the importance of nostalgia, solastalgia, salvage and abandonment for psychiatric hospital design

’Dette er ikke et hospital’: Rum, følelser og professionel ekspertise/funktion i dansk kræftrehabilitering

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