Jamie Mcphie

Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Anthropocene

A Posthuman Inquiry

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer Nature Singapore / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-981-13-3325-5
• 1st ed. 2019
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 550g
• ISBN-13: 9789811333255
• ISBN-10: 9811333254
• Artikelnr.: 54298407

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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.