Main description:

`Identity is tied to place. The environment is not the backdrop; it is woven through our identity.' So writes Chris Rose in her introduction to this insightful collection on the mutually enriching relationship possible between psychogeography and psychotherapy. The book invites an interdisciplinary, reflective and at times poetic exploration of place as an integral feature of personhood, from the sauntering of the 19th century flaneur to today's urban activism. Chapters range across diverse topics - gendered and embodied response to place and space, home and attachment, map-making, mindfulness in the city, outdoor group analytic therapy, the interplay between our internal and external landscapes, displacement from one country and cityscape to another, and the role of the urban therapist. These ground-breaking chapters offer new insights into our deep-rooted resonance with the landscapes we inhabit and contexts we construct. The book is illustrated throughout with original artwork by urban sketchers.

Contents:

Introduction - Chris Rose; 1. Outside in and inside out: an embodied and gendered response to space and place - Diane Parker; 2. Taking space - Jane Samuels; 3. Room to breathe - Chris Powell; 4. Mindfulness in the city: taking notice as therapeutic practice - Benedict Hoff and Richard Phillips; 5. Feeling my way: on walking, embodiment and practising psychotherapy - Liz Bondi; 6. Loitering, resisting and moving - Morag Rose; 7. The theory and practice of urban therapy - Phil Wood; 8. `Here' is where I have a presence - Karen Izod; 9. `Not in the air and not on earth': on negotiating the states in between - Valentina Krajnovic; 10. Mapmaking - Chris Rose