The Mental Life of Cities
Title | The Mental Life of Cities PDF eBook |
Author | Eddie Tay |
Publisher | |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 2010-11 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9789889956585 |
This collection is a meditation on the modern city and the creative life. The bilingual poems featured here are inspired by the ways in which the English and the Chinese languages intertwine and take root in the Asian cities of Hong Kong and Singapore.Born in Singapore, Eddie Tay is a long time resident of Hong Kong. He is an assistant professor at the Department of English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he teaches courses on creative writing and poetry.
Cities for Life
Title | Cities for Life PDF eBook |
Author | Jason Corburn |
Publisher | Island Press |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2021-11-16 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1642831727 |
In cities around the world, planning and health experts are beginning to understand the role of social and environmental conditions that lead to trauma. By respecting the lived experience of those who were most impacted by harms, some cities have developed innovative solutions for urban trauma. In Cities for Life, public health expert Jason Corburn shares lessons from three of these cities: Richmond, California; Medellín, Colombia; and Nairobi, Kenya. Corburn draws from his work with citizens, activists, and decision-makers in these cities over a ten-year period, as individuals and communities worked to heal from trauma--including from gun violence, housing and food insecurity, poverty, and other harms. Cities for Life is about a new way forward with urban communities that rebuilds our social institutions, practices, and policies to be more focused on healing and health.
The Urban Brain
Title | The Urban Brain PDF eBook |
Author | Nikolas Rose |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2022-03-22 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0691231648 |
Bridging the social and life sciences to unlock the mystery of how cities shape mental health and illness Most of the world’s people now live in cities and millions have moved from the countryside to the rapidly growing megacities of the global south. How does the urban experience shape the mental lives of those living in and moving to cities today? Sociologists study cities as centers of personal progress and social innovation, but also exclusion, racism, and inequality. Psychiatrists try to explain the high rates of mental disorders among urban dwellers, especially migrants. But the split between the social and life sciences has hindered understanding of how urban experience is written into the bodies and brains of urbanites. In The Urban Brain, Nikolas Rose and Des Fitzgerald seek to revive the collaboration between sociology and psychiatry about these critical questions. Reexamining the relationship between the city and the brain, Rose and Fitzgerald explore the ways cities shape the mental health and illness of those who inhabit them. Drawing on the social and life sciences, The Urban Brain takes an ecosocial approach to the vital city, in which humans live and thrive but too often get sick and suffer. The result demonstrates what we can gain by a vitalist approach to the mental lives of those migrating to and living in cities, focusing on the ways that humans make, remake, and inhabit their urban lifeworlds.
The Mental Health of Urban America
Title | The Mental Health of Urban America PDF eBook |
Author | National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.). Program Analysis and Evaluation Branch |
Publisher | |
Pages | 152 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | City dwellers |
ISBN |
Urban Mental Health
Title | Urban Mental Health PDF eBook |
Author | Dinesh Bhugra |
Publisher | Oxford Cultural Psychiatry |
Pages | 385 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 0198804946 |
Edited by pioneers in social psychiatry and cultural psychiatry, this resource discusses the challenges of managing mental health and psychiatric disorders in urban areas.
The Urban Brain
Title | The Urban Brain PDF eBook |
Author | Nikolas Rose |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2022-03-22 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 0691231656 |
Bridging the social and life sciences to unlock the mystery of how cities shape mental health and illness Most of the world’s people now live in cities and millions have moved from the countryside to the rapidly growing megacities of the global south. How does the urban experience shape the mental lives of those living in and moving to cities today? Sociologists study cities as centers of personal progress and social innovation, but also exclusion, racism, and inequality. Psychiatrists try to explain the high rates of mental disorders among urban dwellers, especially migrants. But the split between the social and life sciences has hindered understanding of how urban experience is written into the bodies and brains of urbanites. In The Urban Brain, Nikolas Rose and Des Fitzgerald seek to revive the collaboration between sociology and psychiatry about these critical questions. Reexamining the relationship between the city and the brain, Rose and Fitzgerald explore the ways cities shape the mental health and illness of those who inhabit them. Drawing on the social and life sciences, The Urban Brain takes an ecosocial approach to the vital city, in which humans live and thrive but too often get sick and suffer. The result demonstrates what we can gain by a vitalist approach to the mental lives of those migrating to and living in cities, focusing on the ways that humans make, remake, and inhabit their urban lifeworlds.
Mental Health In Our Future Cities
Title | Mental Health In Our Future Cities PDF eBook |
Author | David Goldberg |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2013-10-31 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 1317840887 |
Across the world, cities are becoming larger, as populations drift from the country into urban areas. At the same time, the mentally ill are leaving the mental hospitals and new forms of care are being found in the community. The best ways in which services for the mentally ill can be organized in the community is still a matter for debate, and as cities become larger problems may become greater.; This text compares mental health services in London with those in Amsterdam, Baltimore, Bangalore, Copenhagen, Kobe, Madison, Porto Alegre, Sydney, Teheran and Verona. It describes arrangements that work in practice, and includes some of the ideas and practices in mental health services.