Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Anthropocene : A Posthuman Inquiry

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.

Author: Jamie Mcphie

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: Feb 05, 2019

Number of Pages: 316 pages

Language: English

Binding: Hardcover

ISBN-10: 9811333254

ISBN-13: 9789811333255