Narratives of Art Practice and Mental Wellbeing draws on extensive research carried out with mental health service users who are also practicing artists. Using narrative data gained through hours of reflective conversation, it explores not whether art can contribute to positive wellbeing and improved mental health - as this is now established ground - but rather how art works, and the role art making can play in people's lives as they encounter crises, relapse, recovery or 'beyonding'. The book maps the delicate ways in which finding a means to tell our story sometimes is the creative project...
Narratives of Art Practice and Mental Wellbeing draws on extensive research carried out with mental health service users who are also practicing artis...
An anthology of inspirational, heartfelt letters written by people who have recovered or are recovering from depression and addressed to those who are currently affected by it with additional resources for recovery.
An anthology of inspirational, heartfelt letters written by people who have recovered or are recovering from depression and addressed to those who are...
This book explores loneliness; the experience of it, the discourse surrounding it and what, if anything in these considerations, is specific to today. This book aims to explore the subject of loneliness as we move deeper into a century which faces the paradox of greater and faster connectedness and yet more intensely experienced isolation.
Drawing on multidisciplinary thinking and empirical research, the book explores:
How the human experience of loneliness is being reconfigured through subtle changes in western and western-influenced discourses of...
This book explores loneliness; the experience of it, the discourse surrounding it and what, if anything in these considerations, is specific to tod...
