The Therapeutic Power of the Maggie's Centre

Experience, Design and Wellbeing, Where Architecture meets Neuroscience
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-15457-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 630 g

This book is about the therapeutic environment of the Maggie’s centre and explores the many ways this is achieved. With an unconventional architecture as required by the design brief, combined with Maggie’s psychological support programme, this special health facility allows extraordinary therapeutic effects in people, to the point that one can speak of therapeutic power.

After tracing the story of the Maggie’s centre, the book reveals its fundamentals: Maggie’s Therapeutikos (the-mind-as-important-as-the-body), the Architectural Brief and the ‘Client-Architect-Users’ Triad. It continues by unfolding Maggie’s synergy-that between people and place-which increases users’ psychological flexibility helping them tolerate what was intolerable before. Although comfort and atmospheres are paramount, they are not enough to define the therapeutic environment of the Maggie’s centre. Only by looking at neuroscience that can give us scientific explanations of empathy, feelings and emotions and only considering space neither neutral nor empty, but full of forces that envelop people in an embodied experience, can we explain what generates wellbeing in a Maggie’s centre.

The book concludes by critically evaluating the Maggie’s centre as a model to be applied to other healthcare facilities and to architecture in general. It is essential reading for any student or professional working on therapeutic environments.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Frisone, Caterina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Innenarchitektur, Architekturdesign
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Berufspraxis
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Tod, Sterbehilfe: Soziale und Ethische Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architekten & Architekturbüros
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gebäudetypen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Thanatologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Neurowissenschaften, Kognitionswissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gestaltung, Darstellung, Bautechnik
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technik: Berufe & Ausbildung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.Introduction 2. Maggie’s Therapeutic Environment 3. The Maggie’s centre 4.Maggie’s Fundamentals 5.Maggie’s Synergy 6.Maggie’s Phenomenology 7.Maggie’s as a Paradigm and the Future of the Architecture of Care 8.Epilogue

Über Autor(innen)

Caterina Frisone earned her PhD and was Associate Lecturer in Interior Architecture at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She is now the Scientific Director of the Postgraduate programme ‘Master in Architecture and Health’ at the University Iuav of Venice.