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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mcphie, Jamie (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: e-Book
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : 2019.
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Subjects:
Human geography.
Philosophy of mind.
Community psychology.
Psychotherapy   .
Human Geography.
Philosophy of Mind.
Community Psychology.
Psychotherapy.
Online Access:Full-text access
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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