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Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Anthropocene: A Posthuman Inquiry

Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Anthropocene: A Posthuman Inquiry
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Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Anthropocene: A Posthuman Inquiry

1st ed. 2019 Edition 

by Jamie Mcphie (Author) 

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.

Year:
2019
Pages:
322
Language:
English
Format:
PDF
Size:
6 MB
ISBN-10:
9811333254, 9811333279
ISBN-13:
978-9811333279, 978-9811333255
ASIN:
B07N1BSN4C