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Geopsychiatry and geography: A response
Chris Philo1, Felicity Callard1, Cheryl McGeachan1
1School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
Background:
This contribution responds to three articles (we refer to all three as 'editorials') concerning something called 'geopsychiatry'.
Aims:
To evaluate claims made in these editorials for 'geopsychiatry' as a new field of inquiry at the interface between geography and psychiatry.
Method:
Close critical reading of two editorials in the International Journal of Social Psychiatry - entitled 'Geographical determinants of mental health' and 'Political determinants of mental health' - and one in the International Review of Psychiatry - entitled 'What is geopsychiatry?'
Results:
While this geopsychiatry initiative is to be applauded, disquiet can be expressed about the almost complete neglect of a pre-existing domain of inquiry - 'mental health geography' or 'the geography of mental health' - that has long been researched by academic geographers and cognate scholars. Key trajectories in this field can be identified and related to the proposed foci for geopsychiatry.
Conclusions:
The hope is voiced that future developments in geopsychiatry will proceed in dialogue with the literature and practitioners of mental health geography.
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