Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Anthropocene
A Posthuman Inquiry
Seiten
2019
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1st ed. 2019
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-13-3325-5 (ISBN)
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-13-3325-5 (ISBN)
This book makes the unorthodox claim that there is no such thing as mental health. It also deglamourises nature-based psychotherapies, deconstructs therapeutic landscapes and redefines mental health and wellbeing as an ecological process distributed in the environment – rather than a psychological manifestation trapped within the mind of a human subject. Traditional and contemporary philosophies are merged with new science of the mind as each chapter progressively examples a posthuman account of mental health as physically dispersed amongst things – emoji, photos, tattoos, graffiti, cities, mountains – in this precarious time labelled the Anthropocene. Utilising experimental walks, play scripts and creative research techniques, this book disrupts traditional notions of the subjective self, resulting in an Extended Body Hypothesis – a pathway for alternative narratives of human-environment relations to flourish more ethically. This transdisciplinary inquiry will appeal to anyone interested in non-classificatory accounts of mental health, particularly concerning areas of social and environmental equity – post-nature.
Jamie McPhie is lecturer of cultural landscapes and aesthetics in the outdoors at the University of Cumbria, UK.
1. Introduction.- 2. The Material (Re)Turn—to Mental Health.- 3. The Accidental Death of Mr. Happy and the Medical Gaze.- 4. The Birth of Mr. Messy: Post-Qualitative Inquiry, Rhizoanalysis and Psychogeography.- 5. The Healing Power of Nature(s).- 6. Agential Dancing.- 7. Extended Body Hypothesis (EBH).- 8. Interlude: Liverpool ONE—Liverpool Too: A Therapeutic Tale of Two Cities.- 9. The Aesthetics of a Teletubby Landscape: A Short History of a Romantic Gaze.- 10. The Depression of POPS.- 11. Posthuman Therapeutic Inquiry.- 12. Conclusion: There Is No Such Thing as Mental Health.
Erscheinungsdatum | 08.02.2019 |
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Zusatzinfo | 28 Illustrations, black and white; XIV, 316 p. 28 illus. |
Verlagsort | Singapore |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
Schlagworte | Anthropocene • Contemporary Animism • green space • Mental health and wellbeing • Nature-culture Relations • New Materialisms • posthumanism • Post-qualitative Inquiry • psychogeography • Rhizoanalysis • space and place • Theory of Mind • Therapeutic and Restorative Landscapes |
ISBN-10 | 981-13-3325-4 / 9811333254 |
ISBN-13 | 978-981-13-3325-5 / 9789811333255 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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