Citation

Tucker I, Smith LA. J. Health Psychol. 2014; 19(1): 176-183.

Affiliation

University of East London, UK.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1359105313500260

PMID

24155185

Abstract

This article develops a topological approach derived from Kurt Lewin to analyse the psychological life space/s produced in a mental health service user's home. Drawing on arguments that space plays an important part in the organisation and management of mental distress, photographs of a service user's home are analysed as topological spaces. The article argues that topological theory can contribute to community health psychology through framing psychological distress as spatially distributed, meaning individual bodies, environments and action are conceptualised as equally contributing to the organisation and management of health-related experience and activity.

Language: en