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Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Anthropocene

Download or Read eBook Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Anthropocene PDF written by Jamie Mcphie and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Anthropocene
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 322
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ISBN-10 : 9789811333262
ISBN-13 : 9811333262
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Anthropocene by : Jamie Mcphie

Book excerpt: 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.


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