Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Anthropocene - A Posthuman Inquiry (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer Verlag, Singapore
Country of origin:	Singapore
Release date:	2019
First published:	2019
Authors:	Jamie Mcphie
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	316
Edition:	1st ed. 2019
ISBN-13:	978-981-13-3325-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Philosophy of mind Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Clinical psychology > Psychotherapy Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Philosophy of mind
LSN:	981-13-3325-4
Barcode:	9789811333255

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