While the disciplinary architecture of hospitals has long prevailed in psychiatry many care
teams now work in smaller structures within communities. Ariane d'Hoop explores one of these
places: Drawing on fieldwork in a psychiatric day center for teenagers she traces how spatial
arrangements matter in the care practice. From a corner in which one can withdraw to a kitchen
inviting to hang around or displayed artworks that pique one's curiosity caregivers use the
material environment to stir up the slightest affinity from teenagers. This study thus expands
our idea of what attachment is and makes us more able to recognize the subtle dynamics between
care things and spaces. With a preface by Jeannette Pols.
