The Slightest Attachment

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When Psychiatric Spaces Enact Affinities

By Ariane d'Hoop

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In The Slightest Attachment, Ariane d'Hoop explores the evolving spatial dynamics of psychiatric care outside traditional hospital settings. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in a day centre for teenagers, she examines how architects of care deliberately use physical spaces — from quiet nooks to communal kitchens and art displays — to foster subtle emotional connections and support wellbeing. This nuanced study broadens our understanding of attachment by highlighting the interplay between individuals, caregivers, and their environments.
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Ideal for professionals and scholars in psychiatry, community health, architecture, and social care, as well as readers interested in contemporary approaches to mental health and attachment theory.

An ethnography of psychiatric community building that opens up the potential of spatial arrangements to contribute to a responsive care practice.

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While the disciplinary architecture of hospitals has long prevailed in psychiatry, many care teams now work in smaller structures, within communities. Ariane d'Hoop explores one of these places: Drawing on fieldwork in a psychiatric day centre for teenagers, she traces how spatial arrangements matter in the care practice.

From a corner in which one can withdraw, to a kitchen inviting to hang around, or displayed artworks that pique one's curiosity, caregivers use the material environment to stir up the slightest affinity from teenagers. This study thus expands our idea of what attachment is, and makes us more able to recognise the subtle dynamics between care, things, and spaces.

With a preface by Jeannette Pols.

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The work has been discussed on historypsychiatry.com (dated 10 March 2023), reflecting its significance in the field of psychiatric and community care study.

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ISBN: 9783837665567

Publisher: Transcript Verlag

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 February 2023

Country: Germany

Imprint: Transcript Verlag

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 1.0mm

Width: 15.0mm

Height: 23.0mm

Weight: 284g

Pages: 192

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Addiction & Recovery Ariane d'Hoop Education & Reference Non-Fiction

About the Author

Ariane d'Hoop trained as a stage designer, studied spatial arrangements in performing arts and then completed a joint PhD in architecture (Université Libre de Bruxelles) and anthropology (University of Amsterdam). She has developed a micro-ethnographic attention to the materiality of places, most of them in Brussels, to explore how it matters in situated social practices.