The Big Anxiety

Jill Bennett is Scientia Professor at the University of New South Wales, Australia and Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow. She is Founding Director of the National Institute for Experimental Arts and of The Big Anxiety Festival; and is part of the leadership team of the Ageing Futures Institute.

List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements

Introduction
1. The Politics Of Experience, Jill Bennett

Part I: Suicide, Felt Experience And What Works
2. Why Do Art Therapies Work?, Siri Hustvedt, with Jill Bennett
3. Edge Of The Present: Mixed Reality, Suicidality And Future Thinking, Chloe Watfern, Jill Bennett, Stephanie Habak and Katherine Boydell

Part II: Culture And Experience
4. Knowing From The Inside, Lynn Froggett and Noreen Giffney
5. Radical Creativity: Breaking The Cycles Of Trauma, Marianne Wobcke with Jill Bennett

Part III: Dialogue And Embodied Encounters
6. The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland and Open Dialogue in the work of Ridiculusmus, David Woods and Jon Haynes
7. The Visit: A Collaborative Confabulation, Gail Kenning, Jill Bennett and Volker Kuchelmeister

Part IV: Designing For Experience
8. Facilitating Environments: An Arts-Based Psychosocial Design Approach, Jill Bennett, Lynn Froggett and Lizzie Muller
9. I Have A Thing About Tables, Lois Weaver with Laura Hunter Petree

Part V: Resistance, Racism And Decolonization
10. Narratives Of Resistance From Indefinite Detention: Manus Prison Theory And Nauru Imprisoned Exiles Collective, Omid Tofighian, Behrouz Boochani, Mira* and Elahe Zivardar
11. Poetic Solidarities, Claudia Rankine with Evelyn Araluen

Part VI: Reparative Action
12. Designing Reparations: Creative Process As Reparative Practice, Andrea Durbach, Jill Bennett and Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
13. Embodimap I: Trauma Survival And Refugee Experience, Lydia Gitau

Part VII: Thinking In Action With Creative Resources After Trauma
14. Unnerved, Anita Glesta
15. Wau-mananyi: the Song on the Wind, Pantjiti Imitjala Lewis, Rene Wanun Kulitja, Angela Lynch (Uti Kulintjaku) translated by Beth Sometimes
16. Embodimap Ii: An Auto-Ethnography, Sophie Burgess

Part VIII: Soundwork/Earwork
17. Held Down, Expanding: An Exchange On Trauma Through Acousmatic Sound Art Practice, Thembi Soddell
18. Hold Me In A Circle Of Tender Listening: Entangled Encounters With Women Survivors From The Mental Health Testimony Project Archive, Amanda McDowell

Part IX: Lived Experience, Activism And Survival
19. Being Together In A Neurodiverse World: Exploring Empathy And Othering With Project Art Works, Kate Adams, Sonia Boué, Chloe Watfern
20. Pathologize This, Dolly Sen
21. Super-Fast Augmented Anxiety, Clive Parkinson