{"id":250,"date":"2006-02-24T08:16:52","date_gmt":"2006-02-24T14:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/?p=250"},"modified":"2006-02-24T08:23:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-24T14:23:00","slug":"300","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/24\/300\/","title":{"rendered":"House Thinking : A Room-by-Room Look at How We Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/\">Salon.com<\/a> has an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/salon.com\/mwt\/feature\/2006\/02\/24\/house_thinking\/\">interview with Winifred Gallagher<\/a> about her new book &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&#038;tag=familyresourceco&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;path=external-search%3Fsearch-type=ss%26index=blended%26keyword=0060538694\">House Thinking<\/a>. Winifred is an environmental psychologist who explores how we interact within the environment of our home. Here&#8217;s an excerpt of the interview:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>What got you thinking about &#8220;House Thinking&#8221;?<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 5px; float: right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&#038;tag=familyresourceco&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;path=external-search%3Fsearch-type=ss%26index=blended%26keyword=0060538694\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000\" alt=\"House Thinking\" id=\"image301\" src=\"http:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/house-thinking.png\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>When I was working on &#8220;The Power of Place&#8221; there was an enormous concentration \u2014 which there still is \u2014 on how our internal neurochemistry can affect our behavior. And that seemed to me to be very lopsided. I believe that the environment, and not just the social environment but also the physical environment, has a big impact on behavior. And science up until the turn of the 20th century thought that too \u2014 it was so-called geographical medicine. Doctors would tell patients afflicted with melancholy (which we call depression) to go to a sunny place to feel better. It actually works.<\/p>\n<p>Our culture doesn&#8217;t look at the effects of the environment on behavior. We talk about social relationships and neurochemistry. But it&#8217;s not just my opinion that environment affects behavior. There&#8217;s real solid research from environmental psychology, from psychiatry, from design, architecture, cultural history. A Roman doctor in the second century said, &#8220;Melancholics are to be laid in the sunshine, for their disease is gloom.&#8221; The American Psychiatric Association didn&#8217;t recognize seasonal affective disorder until the &#8217;80s, but the ancients recognized it and knew how to treat it. We can actually do much more to improve the quality of our lives for little or no money.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salon.com has an interesting interview with Winifred Gallagher about her new book &#8220;House Thinking. Winifred is an environmental psychologist who explores how we interact within the environment of our home. Here&#8217;s an excerpt of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,4,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-and-garden","category-lifestyles","category-mental-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}