The Big Anxiety

Name: The Big Anxiety
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SKU: 9781350297791
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Taking Care of Mental Health in Times of Crisis

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The Big Anxiety explores the mental health crisis by combining essays and dialogues from diverse thinkers and artists. It challenges traditional psychiatric views, offering new cultural and imaginative approaches to anxiety, trauma, and distress. The book argues that creativity is essential not just for expression but for survival, reshaping how we understand and support mental wellbeing in communities.
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Ideal for readers interested in mental health, art, cultural studies, and creative approaches to wellbeing. Suitable for academics, practitioners, and anyone seeking a deeper, community-focused understanding of anxiety and mental distress.

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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.

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The book receives strong praise for presenting a fresh paradigm on mental wellbeing, highlighting art's role in addressing personal and societal distress. Experts commend its integration of lived experience with innovative theory and collaboration, moving beyond conventional biomedical models to encourage empathetic and critical engagement with mental health.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781350297791

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 16 June 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic

Illustration: 20 bw illus

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Edited by Jill Bennett

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 150.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 460g

Pages: 304

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Arts & Culture Health & Wellness Non-Fiction Philosophy & Psychology Philosophy & Stoicism Self-Help & Personal Development Series: Thinking in the World

About the Author

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.

The Big Anxiety