Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Anthropocene - 9789811333255

Springer Verlag, Singapore

Mental Health and Wellbeing in the AnthropoceneA Posthuman Inquiry\nAuthor(s): Jamie Mcphie\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore, Singapore\nImprint: Springer Verlag, Singapore\nISBN-13: 9789811333255, 978-9811333255\nSynopsis\nThis 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 disru.