The Therapeutic Power of the Maggie's Centre
Experience, Design and Wellbeing, Where Architecture meets Neuroscience
$81.75
- Paperback
234 pages
- Release Date
26 September 2023
Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781032155265 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1032155264 |
| Author: | Caterina Frisone |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 234 |
| Release Date: | 26 September 2023 |
| Weight: | 540g |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 234mm |
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Critics Review
“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
Caterina Frisone
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.
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