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The Oxford Handbook of Mental Health and Contemporary Western Aesthetics

The Oxford Handbook of Mental Health and Contemporary Western Aesthetics

9780192866929
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Human flourishing depends upon the mental health of the individuals. Throughout history, various cultural traditions have established and practiced diverse strategies to maintain their community members mental health, treat their mental illness, and enhance their well-being. They range from spiritual disciplines, religious rituals, and philosophical training, to communal activities, educational instructions, and community support. It is noteworthy that aesthetic objects andactivities are frequently integrated into these strategies. They include visual arts, music, dance, story-telling, theatre, and occasions and events made special by certain foods, drinks, decorations, clothes, and fragrance. This long-held and widely-practiced integration of aesthetics into promotion of mental health testifies to the power of the aesthetic to affect the well-being of humans and their communities. The worlds major philosophies and religious traditions have recognized this power of the aesthetic. For example, Platos proposed censorship of the arts in his utopian Republic indicates his acknowledgement of, and a respect for, the power of the arts to mold the citizens psyche and character.Confucianism also utilizes arts and rituals to promote moral virtues. Finally, Buddhism teaches the cultivation of mindful practice for human flourishing by developing an alternative relationship with present-moment experience such as suffering and distress. Today, the most dominant methods of treating mentalillness in the West are psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatry, methodologies and practices established and developed in Europe since the nineteenth century. Ever since the birth of art and poetry, its purpose has been to inspire, stir and move people. This handbook addresses the valuable role aesthetics plays in psychotherapy and psychiatry exploring both theory and practice.
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OUP Oxford
102541
9780192866929
9780192866929

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Publication date
2024
Issue number
1
Cover
hard cover
Pages count
1064
Dimensions (mm)
171 x 246
  • SECTION I: INTRODUCTION; Why Aesthetics Matters in Mental Health; The Participatory Turn in Museum Curation as a Model for Persons-centred Clinical Care; Positive Psychiatry and Mental Health; SECTION II: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND BASIC IDEAS; Platonic Proportions: Beauty, Harmony and the Good Life; Nietzsches Healing Art of Transfiguration; John Deweys Aesthetic Theory and Mental Health; The Place of Health in Foucaults Aesthetic of Existence; Frankfurt School Aesthetics. The Aesthetic Dialectics of Mental Health; Aesthetic Engagement as a Pathway to Mental Health and Wellbeing; SECTION III: ENVIRONMENTAL AESTHETICS AND WELLBEING; Everyday Aesthetics and the Good Life; Sensible Wellbeing. Environmental Aesthetics and Multisensory Perception; On the Wellbeing of Aesthetic Beings; On Enjoying What There Is: The Aesthetics of Presence; Gardening and the Power of Engagement with Nature for Mental Wellbeing; Aesthetic Choice in the Age of Ecological Awareness; Everyday Aesthetics and Resilience; Everyday Aesthetics, Happiness, and Depression; SECTION IV: SOCIAL AESTHETICS AND MENTAL HEALTH; Imaginary World-Making in Adaptation and Therapy; Spatial and Narrative Atmospheres: Social Aesthetic Perspectives; Applied Social Aesthetics in Clinical Practice: The Will to Beauty and its Impact on Mental Health; Inquiry on Hospitality, Compassion and Antlitz by Emmanuel Levinas; Philosophical Aesthetics in Psychiatric Practice and Education; Unleashing Therapeutic Gain by Deploying Social Aesthetic Values in Co-Producing Healthcare Decisions; Images of Care: To the Things Themselves!; SECTION V: LITERATURE, STORYTELLING, MOVIES AND MENTAL ILLNESS; Mental Illness in Literature between Phenomenology and Symbolism; Bibliotherapy or of the Healing Power of Reading in the Context of Cultural History; An Aesthetics of Relating and its (Therapeutic) Potentials: A Transcultural Perspective on Literature, Storytelling and the Power of the (Spoken) Word; Everyone has a story: Aesthetic Experiences of Storytelling in The Strangers Project; Film is Psychosis: Filmmakers with Lived Experience; Cinema Therapy - The Film as a Medicine. From the Silent Film Era to the Present Day; Connoisseurs of the Soul, Psycho Villains. Psychotherapists, Psychologists and Psychiatrists in Feature Films and Series; Mental Disorders in Feature Films - Addiction, Suicide, Delusion, Psychosis and Schizophrenia; Imaging Childrens Realities in Films: Visual Anthropological Approaches and Representations of Emotions in Childhood; SECTION VI: PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, ART AND CREATIVITY; Well-being through the poets speaking; Social-Aesthetic Strategies for a Change of Heart; Bodily Aesthetics: Challenging damaging imaginaries of the body - Kathleen Lennon Art & Trauma: An Aesthetic Journey; The Psychology of Art-Viewing: Insights from Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis; Psychoanalysis as an Art of Meeting the Other: Now Moments, Moving along and the possibility of change; The aesthetics of dementia; Supporting a motivated creative practice: workshops to aid creative wellbeing; Aesthetic experience and aesthetic deprivation in hospitals; SECTION VII: AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE IN THE CLINIC. PERSPECTIVES AND REFLECTIONS FROM PRACTICE; Aesthetics for everyday quality: enriching healthcare improvement debates; Developing clinician in-sight into practice through the aesthetic lens; Aesthetic Experience in the Everyday Clinical Work of Healthcare Practitioners: A Practice-Based Description; Gardens and Human Flourishing; The Moving Pieces Approach: Poetic Space, Embodied Creativity, Polarity, and Performances as Aspects of Aesthetic Experience; Aesthetics and the Clinical Encounter. Perfect moment & Privileged Moments; An Exploration of the Aesthetic Moment in the Clinical Encounter using Free Musical Improvisation as a Model; Creative arts, aesthetic experience and the therapeutic connection in eating disorders; Theological Aesthetics and Clinical Care;
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