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Shifting meaning of asylum
Author(s) -
Montgomery Phyllis
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2648.2001.01693.x
Subject(s) - conceptualization , dialectic , emic and etic , perspective (graphical) , space (punctuation) , value (mathematics) , sociology , meaning (existential) , epistemology , psychoanalysis , psychology , linguistics , computer science , anthropology , philosophy , artificial intelligence , machine learning
Shifting meaning of asylumAim(s). This paper offers an expanded way of looking at the idea of asylum from the perspective of Soja’s conceptualization of Thirdspace (Blackwell Publishers, Oxford 1996). Implications for research are discussed. Background. Soja proposes a different way to think about space. He writes not of dialectics but instead of trialectics which reconstructs space. Soja rejects the binarism of either/or logic about space suggesting a creative combination of both/and also. In this instance, the binary logic of either hospital or community asylum is opened to new possibilities of thinking about the space of asylum. Conclusions. The value of hearing the stories of those living with long‐term mental illness is to obtain an emic perspective of their space of asylum.