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Making a Mindful Nation - Mental Health and Governance in the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
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Making a Mindful Nation - Mental Health and Governance in the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
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How mindfulness came to be regarded as a psychological support, an
ethical practice and a component of public policy Mindfulness seems
to be everywhere—in popular culture, in therapeutic practice,
even in policy discussions. How did mindfulness, an awareness
training practice with roots in Buddhism, come to be viewed as a
solution to problems that range from depression and anxiety to
criminal recidivism? If mindfulness is the answer, asks Joanna
Cook, what is the question? In Making a Mindful Nation, Cook uses
the lens of mindfulness to show how cultivating a relationship with
the mind is now central to the ways people envision mental health.
Drawing on long-term fieldwork with patients, therapists, members
of Parliament and political advocates in Britain, Cook explores how
the logics of preventive mental healthcare are incorporated into
people’s relationships with themselves, therapeutic
interventions, structures of governance and political campaigns.
Cook observed mindfulness courses for people suffering from
recurrent depression and anxiety, postgraduate courses for
mindfulness-based therapists, parliamentarians’ mindfulness
practice and political advocacy for mindfulness in public policy.
She develops her theoretical argument through intimate and in-depth
stories about people’s lives and their efforts to navigate the
world—whether these involve struggles with mental health or
contributions to evolving political agendas. In doing so, Cook
offers important insights into the social processes by which mental
health is lived, the normative values that inform it and the
practices of self-cultivation by which it is addressed.
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