title: Space, territory and psychiatry.
abstract: Space and territory have been the hidden dimensions of human and other animal life. Beginning with studies reported in animals, and incorporating the few formal studies and several informal observations of man, this paper explains the importance of mastering the unwritten rules of space and territory which differ with individual cultures in relation to the behavioral aberrations possibly resulting from the disrupted territoriality of modern urban life.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D006801:Humans; D010550:Personal Space; D011570:Psychiatry; D012920:Social Behavior Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D012930:Social Dominance; D013037:Spatial Behavior; D013731:Territoriality