Housing 'unhoused minds': inter-personality disorder in the organisation?

We begin with a discussion of the psychosocial concepts of 'personality disorder' and 'homelessness', and then seek to re-define and re-locate both from the internal world of the patient client to the psychosocial 'dis-memberment' associated with what we have called the...

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Veröffentlicht in:Housing, care and support care and support, 2006-12, Vol.9 (3), p.9-14
Hauptverfasser: Scanlon, Christopher, Adlam, John
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:We begin with a discussion of the psychosocial concepts of 'personality disorder' and 'homelessness', and then seek to re-define and re-locate both from the internal world of the patient client to the psychosocial 'dis-memberment' associated with what we have called the 'unhoused mind'. We then explore the complex reciprocal relationship between the 'ordered' and the 'dis-ordered', the housed and the unhoused, and consider some possible implications for individual workers, staff teams and organisations tasked with attempting to house and or to care for and support such people.
ISSN:1460-8790
2042-8375
DOI:10.1108/14608790200600018