‘Creating the right therapy vibe’: Relational performances in holistic medicine

This paper explores the relational constitution and performance of environments for holistic medicine. Informed by actor-network theory and the idea of 'affect', the findings of a combined observational and interview study of therapists are presented. These suggest how the mediation of care experiences involves influxes of humans, objects and ideas - some visualized, some physical, each providing relationalities to other places - that compose …