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Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Anthropocene Jamie Mcphie

Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Anthropocene By Jamie Mcphie

Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Anthropocene by Jamie Mcphie


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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.

Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Anthropocene Summary

Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Anthropocene: A Posthuman Inquiry by Jamie Mcphie

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.

About Jamie Mcphie

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

Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. The Material (Re)Turnto 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 ONELiverpool 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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NPB9789811333255
9789811333255
9811333254
Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Anthropocene: A Posthuman Inquiry by Jamie Mcphie
New
Hardback
Springer Verlag, Singapore
2019-02-05
316
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