SCHIZOPHRENIA: A COMPREHENSIVE META-HYPOTHESIS
Abstract After generations of enquiry, and currently around 6150 papers being published annually (mostly focusing on the minutiae of the…
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Using A Salutogenic Model for The Development And Management of Mental Health Facilities
The prevailing model of psychiatric facility design does not fulfil its potential in supporting the healing process. A salutogenic approach…
Urban Mental Health
PREFACE The overall proportion of people living in urban areas has been increasing rapidly, and the speed and extent of…
Building a better world: Can architecture shape behaviour?
Abstract: The ability to imagine and project the psychological effects of innovation was part of an architect’s toolkit since ancient…
Moving from Theory to Praxis on the Fly: Introducing a Salutogenic Method to Expedite Mental Healthcare Provision in Disaster Situations.
Introduction Not a lot is known about most mental illness. Its triggers can rarely be established and nor can its…
Common Psychotic Symptoms Can Be Explained By The Theory of Ecological Perception
Medical Hypotheses 78 (2012) 7–10 doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2011.09.029 Professor Jan Alexander Golembiewski, PhD Queensland University of Technology, 2 George Street Brisbane QLD…
Applying a Salutogenic Model to Architectural Design for Psychiatric Care
Abstract Purpose – This paper aims to look into the significance of architectural design in psychiatric care facilities. There is…
The Architecture of The Psychiatric Milieu
The last time a peer-reviewed volume on the future of mental health facilities was produced was in 1959, following a…
Towards a dignity manifesto of design – for people living with Dementia
Richard Fleminga, John Zeiselb, Kirsty Bennettc, Jan Golembiewski d, Kate Swaffer e,f and Lynda Hendersong Faculty of Arts, Social Sciences…
How the environment triggers action?
“We all knew that corner was a black-spot. If ever there was violence in the (psychiatric) unit it was always…
Blind Spot By Jan Golembiewski
In a brand-new, state-of-the art, high-dependency acute care mental health unit, the nurse beeps in a visitor and pulls on…
Designing Environments for Recovery
There’s growing evidence that psychosis is linked to the physocal environments that we live in. Good environments are the ones…
Reflexive and automatic violence: a function of aberrant perceptual inhibition
As part of an observational experiment, two patients were invited (separately) into the apartment of their doctor (the investigator). The…
Neuroscience of mental illness in the city.
Introduction The way the brain processes perceptions of the physical environment is of interest in the epidemiology of mental and…
Salutogenic Architecture in Healthcare Settings
Introduction In recent years, the term ‘salutogenic’ has become a buzz- word for marketing architecture for health and nursing…
A review of mental health facility design: The case for person-centred care.
There’s a growing schism in mental health services around the world. There is a broad call for person-centered models of…
Lost in Space
Structured Abstract Purpose: Psychological and epidemiological literature suggests that the built environment plays both causal and salutary roles in…
Turning The City Inside Out for Mental Health.
The mid 1980’s saw an unlikely alliance between the neo-conservative Regan and Thatcher governments, and the users of the psychiatric…
Turning ‘human-centered’ aged care into reality
The Royal Commission into Aged Care left organizations that provide housing for aged care wondering how they will put its…
Architectural Design Gives Hope for Dementia
The places people living with dementia (PLWD) live in, profoundly affect their happiness, behavior, the course of their ill-nesses and…
Haunted by design: how buildings can make us see ghosts
Imagine yourself in front of a shadowy Victorian villa. The wind whooshes in the trees and swings a loose shutter…
Salutogenic Approaches to Dementia Care
Salutogenesis is a theory of health focused on strengthening the forces that support life and engagement, rather than on preventing or treating disease.
Using ecological theory to manage behaviour and symptoms in people living with dementia: a transdisciplinary approach to design
Design (of all types and at all scales) is largely an attempt to manipulate the way we react to our surroundings. Design has functional concerns – architecture is naturally preoccupied with shelter and how it’s to be built, how it flows and what it looks like.