Epidemiological research in psychiatry has established robust evidence of the link between urban living and psychosis, but the situated experience of the city, as well as the precise ecology of psychosis remain largely unexplored. In this context, the aim of this paper is to discuss the productive potential of a ‘re-vitalized’ biosocial geographical thinking and researching on urban mental health. We do so through a methodological proposition. First, we discuss the need for a biosocial approach to the city/psychosis nexus and argue that a broader biological view, beyond epigenetics and neurosciences and a more precise investigation of ‘the social’ need to be developed. Second, a telling and recurring motto of recent reflections on biosocial processes is to understand how the environment or the social ‘gets under the skin’. We suggest examining a specific place in this pathway, the skin itself. This leads us to expose a methodology using electrodermal activity (EDA), combined with ethnographic observations and interviews, as a strategy for analysing ecological processes in psychosis. In doing so, we discuss the potential of ‘biosensory ethnographies’ in studies of urban mental health and more broadly as a biosocial approach to the geography of health.

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如何让环境对皮肤：biosensory人种学的方法研究精神病与城市之间的关系

精神病流行病学研究已经建立了城市生活和精神，但城市的经验位于之间的联系，有力的证据，以及精神病的精确生态基本上还未。在此背景下，本文的目的是讨论“重新激发赋活机能”生物社会的地理思维的生产潜力，研究对城市的心理健康。我们通过一个方法论主张这样做。首先，我们讨论了生物社会的方法来城市/精神病关系的必要性，并认为更广泛的生物学的观点，超出了表观遗传学和神经科学与“社会”需要更精确的调查有待开发。其次，在生物社会进程最近思考的故事和经常性的座右铭是了解环境或社会如何“皮肤下变得”。我们建议在这一途径检查一个特定的地方，皮肤本身。这使我们暴露使用电活动（EDA），与人种学观察和访谈相结合的方法，为精神病分析生态过程的战略。在此过程中，我们将讨论在城市的心理健康和更广泛地作为一个生物社会对待健康的地理学研究“biosensory民族志”的潜力。