The Big Anxiety: Taking Care of Mental Health in Times of Crisis (Thinking in the World)
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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. Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Figures Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: The politics of experience – and the function of art in the expanded field of mental health Part I: Suicide, felt experience and what works Chapter 2: Why do art therapies work? Chapter 3: Edge of the present: Mixed reality, suicidality and future thinking Part II: Culture and experience Chapter 4: Knowing from the inside Chapter 5: Radical creativity: Breaking the cycles of trauma Part III: Dialogue and embodied encounters Chapter 6: The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland and Open Dialogue in the work of Ridiculusmus Chapter 7: The Visit: A collaborative confabulation Part IV: Designing for experience Chapter 8: Facilitating environments: An arts-based psychosocial design approach Chapter 9: I have a thing about tables Part V: Resistance, racism and decolonization Chapter 10: Narratives of resistance from indefinite detention: Manus Prison Theory and Nauru Imprisoned Exiles Collective Chapter 11: Poetic solidarities Part VI: Reparative action Chapter 12: Designing reparations: Creative process as reparative practice Chapter 13: EmbodiMap I: Trauma survival and refugee experience Part VII: Thinking in action with creative resources after trauma Chapter 14: Unnerved Chapter 15: Wau-mananyi: The song on the wind Chapter 16: EmbodiMap II: An auto-ethnography Part VIII: Soundwork/earwork Chapter 17: Held Down, Expanding: An exchange on trauma through acousmatic sound art practice Chapter 18: Hold me in a circle of tender listening: Entangled encounters with women survivors from the Mental Health Testimony Project archive Part IX: Lived experience, activism and survival Chapter 19: Being together in a neurodiverse world: Exploring with Project Art Works Chapter 20: Pathologize this Chapter 21: Super-fast augmented anxiety Index
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