Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Anthropocene [electronic resource] : a Posthuman Inquiry / by Jamie Mcphie.

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Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Anthropocene [electronic resource] : a Posthuman Inquiry / by Jamie Mcphie.

9789811333262
9811333262
9811333254
9789811333255

Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.

English

1 online resource (XIV, 316 pages 28 illustrations) : online resource

10.1007/978-981-13-3326-2 doi

GF1-900

304.2

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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