{"product_id":"the-big-anxiety-9781350297791","title":"The Big Anxiety","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Big Anxiety\u003c\/i\u003e shows how creativity is not a luxury, but a means of survival.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough 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 * Nathan Filer, co-lead of the Research Centre for Mental Health, Wellbeing and Creativity at Bath Spa University, UK *\u003cbr\u003eJill 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. * Mieke Bal, Independent Scholar and Artist, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, the Netherlands *\u003cbr\u003eBreaking with the dominant bio-medical approach to mental health, this inspiring volume is firmly grounded \u003ci\u003ein\u003c\/i\u003e lived experience. Combining thought-provoking theory, practice and creativity, it encourages critical thinking\u003ci\u003e with\u003c\/i\u003e 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. * Renata Kokanovic, Professor of Health Sociology, RMIT University, Australia *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eList of Figures\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eList of Contributors\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgements \u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e 1. The Politics Of Experience, \u003ci\u003eJill Bennett\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003ePart I: Suicide, Felt Experience And What Works\u003c\/b\u003e 2. Why Do Art Therapies Work?, \u003ci\u003eSiri Hustvedt, with Jill Bennett \u003c\/i\u003e 3. Edge Of The Present: Mixed Reality, Suicidality And Future Thinking, \u003ci\u003eChloe Watfern, Jill Bennett, Stephanie Habak and  Katherine Boydell\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003ePart II: Culture And Experience\u003c\/b\u003e 4. Knowing From The Inside, \u003ci\u003eLynn Froggett and Noreen Giffney\u003c\/i\u003e 5. Radical Creativity: Breaking The Cycles Of Trauma, \u003ci\u003eMarianne Wobcke with Jill Bennett\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003ePart III: Dialogue And Embodied Encounters\u003c\/b\u003e 6. The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland and Open Dialogue in the work of Ridiculusmus, \u003ci\u003eDavid Woods and Jon Haynes\u003c\/i\u003e 7. The Visit: A Collaborative Confabulation, \u003ci\u003eGail Kenning, Jill Bennett and Volker Kuchelmeister\u003c\/i\u003e    \u003cb\u003ePart IV: Designing For Experience\u003c\/b\u003e 8. Facilitating Environments: An Arts-Based Psychosocial Design Approach, \u003ci\u003eJill Bennett, Lynn Froggett and Lizzie Muller\u003c\/i\u003e 9. I Have A Thing About Tables, \u003ci\u003eLois Weaver with Laura Hunter Petree \u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003ePart V: Resistance, Racism And Decolonization\u003c\/b\u003e 10. Narratives Of Resistance From Indefinite Detention: Manus Prison Theory And Nauru Imprisoned Exiles Collective, \u003ci\u003eOmid Tofighian, Behrouz Boochani\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, Mira* and Elahe Zivardar\u003c\/i\u003e 11. Poetic Solidarities, \u003ci\u003eClaudia Rankine with Evelyn Araluen    \u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003ePart VI: Reparative Action\u003c\/b\u003e 12. Designing Reparations: Creative Process As Reparative Practice\u003ci\u003e,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAndrea Durbach, Jill Bennett and Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela\u003c\/i\u003e 13. Embodimap I: Trauma Survival And Refugee Experience, \u003ci\u003eLydia Gitau\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003ePart VII: Thinking In Action With Creative Resources After Trauma\u003c\/b\u003e 14. Unnerved, \u003ci\u003eAnita Glesta\u003c\/i\u003e 15. Wau-mananyi: the Song on the Wind, \u003ci\u003ePantjiti Imitjala Lewis, Rene Wanun Kulitja, Angela Lynch (Uti Kulintjaku) translated by Beth Sometimes\u003c\/i\u003e 16. Embodimap Ii: An Auto-Ethnography, \u003ci\u003eSophie Burgess\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003ePart VIII: Soundwork\/Earwork \u003c\/b\u003e 17. Held Down, Expanding: An Exchange On Trauma Through Acousmatic Sound Art Practice, \u003ci\u003eThembi Soddell\u003c\/i\u003e 18. Hold Me In A Circle Of Tender Listening: Entangled Encounters With Women Survivors From The Mental Health Testimony Project Archive, \u003ci\u003eAmanda McDowell\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003ePart IX: Lived Experience, Activism And Survival \u003c\/b\u003e 19. Being Together In A Neurodiverse World: Exploring Empathy And Othering With Project Art Works, \u003ci\u003eKate Adams, Sonia \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoué, Chloe Watfern\u003c\/i\u003e 20. Pathologize This, \u003ci\u003eDolly Sen\u003c\/i\u003e 21. Super-Fast Augmented Anxiety, \u003ci\u003eClive Parkinson\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49529220170071,"sku":"9781350297791","price":30.01,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350297791.jpg?v=1731874772","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-big-anxiety-9781350297791","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}