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The Environment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Hugh Freeman
Hugh Freeman*
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University of Salford
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There has been a surprising lack of interest in - and an even greater lack of worthwhile research on - the relationship between the physical environment and human life in its psychological-behavioural aspects. Following up the outcome of interventions is a basic investigatory task for psychiatrists, but has had little attraction for planners or architects, any more than for lawyers. It is ironic, though, that psychiatry should so often be attacked for taking too clinical or mechanistic a view, considering that hardly any other discipline (except social work) devotes so much attention in everyday practice to the objective circumstances of peoples' lives. Perhaps this bad press has something to do with the failure of social psychiatry to construct a coherent environmental offshoot, or to intervene usefully in that kind of public issue - a gap which I have tried to start filling in Mental Health and the Environment (Freeman, 1985).

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 153 , Issue 4 , October 1988 , pp. 579 - 582
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1988 

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