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This chapter seeks to premise bitter controversy as a platform from which to explore the relatively recent phenomena of social prescribing, or community referring. It explores the social and relational practices that occur in the informal community settings and spaces that are used in social prescribing, and examines some of conceptual and practical implications for how psychiatrists understand and perform mental health and its attendant care practices. Psychiatrists would suggest that the spaces in which psychological distress moves can behave rather like a fluid and that distress is a fluid, changeable object moving in a fluid space. People experiencing distress will, as a matter of course, encounter other social spaces. Spaces offer zones of possibility that can be experienced as sanctuary and relaxing, and also threatening and oppressive; the kinds of community spaces invoked by social prescribing networks. Psychiatric medication still tends to be the default in mental health with 92 per cent of servicers having taken medication. One therapeutic is the medical therapeutic of experts and mental health. |
