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Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Anthropocene

A Posthuman Inquiry

von: Jamie Mcphie
85,59 €
Verlag:	Palgrave Macmillan
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	22.01.2019
ISBN/EAN:	9789811333262
Sprache:	englisch

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Titelbeschreibung

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Autorenportrait

Jamie McPhie is lecturer of cultural landscapes and aesthetics in the outdoors at the University of Cumbria, UK.

Sonderbeitrag

Truly interdisciplinary in scope, ranging across art, psychology, therapy, environmental humanities, mental health, human geography, continental philosophy, animism and social science Provides unique accessibility to traditionally challenging content due to the creative nature of the inquiry Offers a controversial and more ethical account of mental health and wellbeing than currently exists, which will appeal to a wide audience of scholars, researchers and students

Unpublished endorsement

“<i>Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Anthropocene</i> takes the reader into radical and provocative territory. Jamie Mcphie’s proposition that mental health is distributed and ecological rather than individual and psychological opens up fields of possibility, and challenges what we think we know—about “health”, “therapy”, “nature”, and more. Methodologically innovative, and as playful as it is intense, we read this text and we can no longer think the same.” (Jonathan Wyatt, Professor of Qualitative Inquiry, The University of Edinburgh, UK)<p>“Tackling the conceptual and ethical implications of posthumanism for thinking about health and wellbeing, Mcphie’s absorbing new book leads the reader through continental philosophy, neuroscience, environmental studies, post-qualitative methodology and creative practice to assemble a novel ecology of mental health. The implications of this ecology for thinking about health in the Anthropocene are profound indeed, breaking with all dualisms to deliver a powerful new ethics of care for an age of perpetual crisis.” (Cameron Duff, RMIT University, Australia)</p>