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The Big Anxiety: Taking Care of Mental Health in Times of Crisis: Thinking in the World

Editat de Jill Bennett
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 iun 2022
This book takes a creative approach in examining one of the biggest crises of our time: that of mental suffering, distress and anxiety. By bringing together essays and dialogues from thinkers and artists across a range of disciplines, it re-imagines approaches to crisis, support, and care. Amid growing recognition that mental health is not only the province of psychiatry and the health sector, but a concern for the whole community, the book opens up critical new ways of thinking about our internal lives and the forces that affect them. The book significantly advances the way we think about cultural responses to mental health and the understanding of the struggles of inner life. Featuring both theoretical and practical examples of the value of using imagination in response to trauma, anxiety, and depression, The Big Anxiety shows how creativity is not a luxury, but a means of survival.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350297791
ISBN-10: 1350297798
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 20 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Thinking in the World

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Each of the pieces engages explicitly with contemporary life (ie. with the practical and political realities of mental health post-COVID for diverse populations) and with liberating ideas, challenging oppressive systems

Notă biografică

Jill Bennett is Scientia Professor at the University of New South Wales, Australia and Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow. She is Founding Director of the National Institute for Experimental Arts and of The Big Anxiety Festival; and is part of the leadership team of the Ageing Futures Institute.

Cuprins

List of FiguresList of ContributorsAcknowledgements Introduction1. The Politics Of Experience, Jill Bennett Part I: Suicide, Felt Experience And What Works2. Why Do Art Therapies Work?, Siri Hustvedt, with Jill Bennett 3. Edge Of The Present: Mixed Reality, Suicidality And Future Thinking, Chloe Watfern, Jill Bennett, Stephanie Habak and Katherine Boydell Part II: Culture And Experience4. Knowing From The Inside, Lynn Froggett and Noreen Giffney5. Radical Creativity: Breaking The Cycles Of Trauma, Marianne Wobcke with Jill Bennett Part III: Dialogue And Embodied Encounters6. The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland and Open Dialogue in the work of Ridiculusmus, David Woods and Jon Haynes7. The Visit: A Collaborative Confabulation, Gail Kenning, Jill Bennett and Volker Kuchelmeister Part IV: Designing For Experience8. Facilitating Environments: An Arts-Based Psychosocial Design Approach, Jill Bennett, Lynn Froggett and Lizzie Muller9. I Have A Thing About Tables, Lois Weaver with Laura Hunter Petree Part V: Resistance, Racism And Decolonization10. Narratives Of Resistance From Indefinite Detention: Manus Prison Theory And Nauru Imprisoned Exiles Collective, Omid Tofighian, Behrouz Boochani, Mira* and Elahe Zivardar11. Poetic Solidarities, Claudia Rankine with Evelyn Araluen Part VI: Reparative Action12. Designing Reparations: Creative Process As Reparative Practice, Andrea Durbach, Jill Bennett and Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela13. Embodimap I: Trauma Survival And Refugee Experience, Lydia Gitau Part VII: Thinking In Action With Creative Resources After Trauma14. Unnerved, Anita Glesta15. Wau-mananyi: the Song on the Wind, Pantjiti Imitjala Lewis, Rene Wanun Kulitja, Angela Lynch (Uti Kulintjaku) translated by Beth Sometimes16. Embodimap Ii: An Auto-Ethnography, Sophie Burgess Part VIII: Soundwork/Earwork 17. Held Down, Expanding: An Exchange On Trauma Through Acousmatic Sound Art Practice, Thembi Soddell18. Hold Me In A Circle Of Tender Listening: Entangled Encounters With Women Survivors From The Mental Health Testimony Project Archive, Amanda McDowell Part IX: Lived Experience, Activism And Survival 19. Being Together In A Neurodiverse World: Exploring Empathy And Othering With Project Art Works, Kate Adams, Sonia Boué, Chloe Watfern20. Pathologize This, Dolly Sen21. Super-Fast Augmented Anxiety, Clive Parkinson

Recenzii

Through this diverse collection of provocations, Jill Bennett presents an exciting new paradigm for understanding mental wellbeing. We see how art, in its myriad forms, can be uniquely placed to explore the personal, political and spiritual dimensions of distress - and to guide us towards a deeper, more empathic response
Jill Bennett more than anyone manages to bind social and aesthetic issues on the profound level of thinking "in the world". Mental health issues, or "neuro-diversity", she takes on in this peerless volume, from a constructive aesthetic entrance. And "collaboration" is her middle name.
Breaking with the dominant bio-medical approach to mental health, this inspiring volume is firmly grounded in lived experience. Combining thought-provoking theory, practice and creativity, it encourages critical thinking with experiences of distress. The Big Anxiety leads the way in radically reconceptualising 'mental health' and its support through an exciting array of cultural and creative practices.