Human interaction with their environments has been investigated by environmental psychology, which studies the mutual influence of environmental and behavioral factors. This article focuses on important relationship between the quality of environments and human health. It's a theoretical study about three themes: development of ownership and attachment in built environments; influence of the phenomena territoriality/privacy in the care of mental health, and psychophysiology aspects of the person-virtual environment interaction. Important indicators related the reduction of the options of ownership of environments to illness. Also, it was identified that health care requires a specific look on the particularities of human-environmental relationships established. Finally, given the increasing exposure to virtual environments, it was realized the need for greater understanding of the psychophysiology of these interactions. Looking for expanding the knowledge of the psychological phenomena in human-environmental interactions, this article provides an overview of theoretical contributions in several recent scientific literature.
environmental psychology; health; mental health; space