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Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Anthropocene A Posthuman Inquiry /
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 m...
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| Format: | e-Book |
| Language: | English |
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Singapore :
Springer Nature Singapore :
2019.
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, |
| Edition: | 1st ed. 2019. |
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| Online Access: | Full-text access |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | XIV, 316 p. 28 illus. online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9789811333262 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-981-13-3326-2 |