The Big Anxiety (eBook, PDF)

Taking Care of Mental Health in Times of Crisis
Redaktion: Bennett, Jill

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book takes a creative approach in examining one of the biggest crises of our time: that of mental suffering, distress and anxiety. By bringing together essays and dialogues from thinkers and artists across a range of disciplines, it re-imagines approaches to crisis, support, and care. Amid growing recognition that mental health is not only the province of psychiatry and the health sector, but a concern for the whole community, the book opens up critical new ways of thinking about our internal lives and the forces that affect them.

The book significantly advances the way we think about cultural responses to mental health and the understanding of the struggles of inner life. Featuring both theoretical and practical examples of the value of using imagination in response to trauma, anxiety, and depression, The Big Anxiety shows how creativity is not a luxury, but a means of survival.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350297753
• Artikelnr.: 63603784

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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