The Therapeutic Power of the Maggie's Centre: Experience, Design and Wellbeing, Where Architecture Meets Neuroscience

ISBN-13: 9781032155265 / Angielski

Caterina Frisone

Opis

This book explores the many ways in which the therapeutic environment of the Maggie’s centre is achieved. The book critically evaluates 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.

Recenzje

"The role of emotions and feelings for a person left alone in that limbo that follows a cancer diagnosis is why Maggie Keswick Jencks started her pilot project for a centre with a human element at its core which, since 1996, has continued to grow to help more and more people with cancer. Explaining our philosophy with strength and passion, this book promotes Maggie’s values that hopefully go beyond healthcare and reach a wider architectural audience."

Dame Laura Lee, Maggie’s CEO

"And I came in and I was in the centre for about three hours, and the initial feeling of walking through that door, and just looking up and seeing it, was there even then and felt that powerful, that I was in a powerful place. I think I felt I was in a safe place. And that's what I feel when I've come into Maggie’s, I feel safe, here."

Malita, Maggie’s Dundee visitor

"I couldn’t believe my cancer diagnosis, but then I thought ‘I can come here every day! I can sit in a corner and cry some time, yeah!’ I swear to God, if I didn’t have it, I don’t think I would be ok as I am."

Elizabeth, Maggie’s Barts visitor

"This is not the business of healthcare, but it is the business of the spirit. And it really is a very spiritual place, in a non-religious way."

Carol, Maggie’s Oldham visitor

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.