Living 'in between' outside and inside: the forensic psychiatric unit as an impermanent assemblage

Tucker, IM, Brown, SD ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7841-3225, Kanyeredzi, A, McGrath, L and Reavey, P, 2019. Living 'in between' outside and inside: the forensic psychiatric unit as an impermanent assemblage. Health and Place, 55, pp. 29-36. ISSN 1353-8292

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Abstract

This paper presents analysis from a study of staff and patient experiences of the restrictive environments of a forensic psychiatric unit. The paper conceptualises the forensic unit as an impermanent assemblage, enacted in and through practices that hold a future life outside the unit simultaneously near, yet far. We show how the near-far relations between life inside and outside the unit operate in three ways; 1) in relation to the ‘care pathway’, 2) practices of dwelling, and 3) creating and maintaining connections to life ‘beyond’ the unit. The paper concludes with a discussion about possible ways to overcome the limitations to recovery that can arise through practices of impermanence.

Item Type: Journal article
Publication Title: Health and Place
Creators: Tucker, I.M., Brown, S.D., Kanyeredzi, A., McGrath, L. and Reavey, P.
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: January 2019
Volume: 55
ISSN: 1353-8292
Identifiers:
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Type
10.1016/j.healthplace.2018.10.009
DOI
1197942
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Divisions: Schools > Nottingham Business School
Record created by: Jonathan Gallacher
Date Added: 25 Oct 2019 13:34
Last Modified: 19 May 2020 03:00
URI: https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/38044

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