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Fertile Imaginations: an inner city allotment group

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Joanna Seller ,
Jon Fieldhouse  and
Michael Phelan
Joanna Seller
Affiliation:
Area 2 Community Mental Health Team, Riverside Mental Health Trust Gloucester House, 194 Hammersmith Road, Hammersmith, London W6 8BS
Jon Fieldhouse
Affiliation:
Area 2 Community Mental Health Team, Riverside Mental Health Trust Gloucester House, 194 Hammersmith Road, Hammersmith, London W6 8BS
Michael Phelan*
Affiliation:
Area 2 Community Mental Health Team, Riverside Mental Health Trust Gloucester House, 194 Hammersmith Road, Hammersmith, London W6 8BS
*
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Engaging people with mental illness in horticultural activities is nothing new. Asylums encouraged patients to work on farms, in orchards and in kitchen gardens. This activity gradually became distilled, formalised and applied clinically as ‘moral treatment’, out of which occupational therapy evolved (Paterson, 1997). ‘Fertile Imaginations' is an attempt to offer horticultural activities to people with mental illness, within the framework of an inner city community mental health team (CMHT) and to ensure that the activities that engaged and benefited patients in the past, are not now denied.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 23 , Issue 5 , May 1999 , pp. 291 - 293
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