Routledge Handbook on Spaces of Mental Health and Wellbeing

This handbook, critically examines spaces of mental health and well-being across multiple, often intersecting, domains from green and blue spaces to lived and embodied spaces, creative spaces, work and home spaces, and institutional and post-institutional spaces.

Candice P. Boyd is an artist-geographer and clinical psychologist. They are currently an honorary Principal Fellow in the School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Melbourne researching spaces of mental health and wellbeing, arts-based knowledge translation, and climate-related mental health issues. They are author of Exhibiting Creative Geographies (2023) and Non-Representational Geographies of Therapeutic Art Making (2017), co-author of Emotion and the Contemporary Museum (2020), and co-editor of Non-Representational Theory and the Creative Arts (2019). Louise E. Boyle is a health geographer and Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Geographical and Earth Sciences at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. She completed an ESRC-funded PhD on The Social and Anticipatory Geographies of Social Anxiety Disorder (2019) and built on this research through an ESRC Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship (2020-2022). She is the author of Anxious Geographies: Worlds of Social Anxiety (Routledge, 2024). Sarah L. Bell is a health geographer at the University of Exeter, whose work examines experiences of mental health, wellbeing, disability, and social inclusion in and with diverse forms of 'nature' - from parks, gardens, woodlands, coast, and countryside to the weather, seasons, and climate change (www.sensing-nature.com). Most recently, Sarah has been developing new collaborations to understand how the climate crisis - and prominent societal responses to it - is shaping the everyday lives and adaptive capacities of people with varied experiences and histories of disability (www.sensing-climate.com). Ebba Högström is a professor in architecture at Umeå University. Her research interest is in social and experiential dimensions of architecture and the built environment. A specific interest is in geographies of welfare institutions and infrastructures of care. Currently, she is engaged in research projects addressing housing and living environments for vulnerable groups, i.e., people with mental ill-health and older people. Together with C Nord, she has edited the book Caring Architecture: Institutions and Relational Practices (2017). Joshua Evans is an associate professor of human geography at the University of Alberta. He is a social geographer with interests in spaces of care, home, and work and their role in shaping the lived experiences of socially marginalized and vulnerable individuals, as well as spaces of policy development and implementation and their role in the creation of healthy, enabling, and equitable urban environments. His most recent research focuses on housing, homelessness, and urban justice. Alak Paul is a health geographer at the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. His research interest covers stigmatized diseases and public health. He focuses on everyday geographies of marginalized or vulnerable people in his research, especially how geographic space or place plays a role in reshaping the life of people or the environment. He is the author of HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh: Stigmatized People, Policy and Place (2020) and co-editor of Geography in Bangladesh: Concepts Methods and Applications (Routledge, 2019) and The Palgrave Handbook of Social Fieldwork (2023). Ronan Foley is an associate professor in health geography and GIS at Maynooth University, Ireland, with expertise in therapeutic landscapes and geospatial planning within health and social care environments. His research focuses on relationships between water, health, and place, including two books and journal articles on holy wells, spas, social and cultural histories of swimming, and 'blue space'. He is an Editorial Board member of Health & Place, was Editor of Irish Geography, 2015-2022 and chairs the MU Healthy Campus Steering Group. He collaborates on water/health projects with colleagues in Ireland, UK, Spain, Germany, New Zealand, and Australia.

1 Introducing the Routledge Handbook on Spaces of Mental Health and Well-Being SECTION 1 2 Introducing Green and Blue Spaces Part A: Implications for Mental Health 3 Greenspace programmes for mental health Wendy Masterton 4 Ten big picture actions for mainstreaming gardening into public health Jonathan (Yotti) Kingsley 5 What is the Right Dose of Nature for Mental Health? Quantity, Quality, Distance, and Exposure Time Marco Garrido-Cumbrera 6 Nature contact and burnout Thomas Astell-Burt, Michael Navakatikyan and Xiaoqi Feng 7 Biodiversity for Health and Wellbeing Jessica Fisher, Gail E. Austen, Martin Dallimer, Katherine N. Irvine and Zoe Davies 8 The affective quality of blue spaces - The Case Study of a Wetland in Wakiso District, Uganda Sophie-Bo Heinkel and Thomas Kistemann Green and Blue Spaces Part B: Critical Perspectives 9: Untangling nature-based Interventions' influences on participants' mental wellbeing: Critiquing 'nature on prescription'. Andy Harrod and Nadia von Benzon 10 Seeking asylum, 'therapeutic landscapes', agency and lived citizenship. Josephine Biglin 11 Green gentrification and its impacts on mental health: unveiling the evidence on sociocultural and physical exclusion linked to green and blue spaces Margarita Triguero-Mas and Helen V.S. Cole 12 How do we understand the impact of immersion in blue space on mental health and wellbeing? Hannah Denton, Kay Aranda and Charlie Dannreuther 13 Lifestyle sports, social justice, blue space and mental health inequalities Belinda Wheaton and Rebecca Olive 14 Intoxicated: Men, Mental Health, Wellbeing, and Pollution in Blue Spaces Clifton Evers SECTION 2 15 Introducing Lived and Embodied Spaces 16 Feeling SAD: embodied geographies of seasonal affective disorder Shawn Bodden, Hayden Lorimer and Hester Parr 17 Geographies of Panic: Towards a relational conceptualisation of panic 'disorder' Candela Sánchez-Rodilla Espeso 18 Taking up space: anorexia nervosa and embodied healing Grace Lucas 19 Dance Movement Psychotherapy in acute adult psychiatry: space, time and affective atmospheres in the ward landscape Mary Coaten 20 Embodiment and space in understandings of suicide and self-harm Amy Chandler, Sarah Huque, Rebecca, Helman, Joe Anderson and Emily Yue 21 The university as a lived space: The experience of students in distress Emma Farrell and Sheena Hyland SECTION 3 22 Introducing Creative Spaces 23 Spaces of Australian Indigenous Song and Dance Paul Callaghan and Jesse Hodgetts 24 Caring through circulation: reflections on affect and materiality at the second-hand book market of College Street, Calcutta Diti Bhattacharya 25 BAJO EL OLIVO (Under the Olive Tree): Experimenting with A Posthuman Life and Landscape with Radical Affection in an Artist Residency Juliana España Keller 26 Distributed Assemblages of Cognition and Health (Or) How TikTok ate my Mind Jamie McPhie and David A. G. Clarke 27 Distance and Belonging in the Studio Christian Edwardes 28 Creative Spaces of Disaster Recovery Kate E. W. Douglas 29 Regional arts festivals as infrastructures of care Michelle Duffy, Judith Mair and Elaine Stratford SECTION 4 30 Introducing Work and Home Spaces 31 Recovering Place and Wellbeing for Individuals with Mental Illness Nastaran Doroud and Ellie Fossey 32: Permanent Supportive Housing: A Key Role in Serving the Needs of Unhoused Individuals Deborah K. Padgett 33 Exploring the complex negotiation of home, aging, and mental health: Haven or not? Rachel Herron 34 Haven or Hell?: An introduction to trauma informed design as a mechanism for place-based healing Julia Woodhall-Melnik, Cassandra Monette, and Erin MacKenney 35 Breadwinning, Mental Health and the Geographies of Masculinity Robert Wilton and Ann Fudge Schormans 36 Creating space for youth mental health online: A clinician's perspective Candice P. Boyd 37 Landscapes of trauma and mental health Jesse Proudfoot SECTION 5 38 Introducing Institutional and Post-Institutional Spaces 39 'Healing Architecture' and the Spatial Organization of the Psychiatric Clinic Thorben Peter Høj Simonsen 40 Islands as Spaces of Institutionalised Mental Health and Wellbeing Robin Kearns and John Connell 41 The New Institutional Landscape for People with Mental Health Problems Alain Topor, Tore Dag Bøe, Oyvind Hope, Ottar Ness and Jan Friesinger 42 A New Space for 'Curing Madness': Circulation of an Open-Door model between France and Argentina in the early 20th century Hervé Guillemain and Fernando Ferrari 43 Carceral Riskscapes in the Institutions of Care Virve Repo 44 Writing the Asylum: Archive and Creativity in the Abandoned Space Gillean McDougall 45 Mental health geography in the cracks: between abolition and reform Ebba Högström and Chris Philo