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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 and activities 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 world's major philosophies and religious traditions have recognized this power of the aesthetic. For example, Plato's 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 mental illness 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.
Contents
SECTION I: INTRODUCTION
1: Martin Poltrum, Yuriko Saito, Michael Musalek, Kathleen Galvin, Helena Fox: Why Aesthetics Matters in Mental Health
2: K.W.M Fulford, Anna Bergqvist: The Participatory Turn in Museum Curation as a Model for Persons-centred Clinical Care
3: Meryam Schouler-Ocak: Positive Psychiatry and Mental Health
SECTION II: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND BASIC IDEAS
4: Angela Hobbs: Platonic Proportions: Beauty, Harmony and the Good Life
5: Paul van Tongeren: Nietzsche's Healing Art of Transfiguration
6: Thomas Leddy: John Dewey's Aesthetic Theory and Mental Health
7: Robert Wicks: The Place of Health in Foucault's Aesthetic of Existence
8: Johan Frederik Hartle: Frankfurt School Aesthetics. The Aesthetic Dialectics of Mental Health
9: Eugene Hughes, Arnold Berleant: Aesthetic Engagement as a Pathway to Mental Health and Wellbeing
SECTION III: ENVIRONMENTAL AESTHETICS AND WELLBEING
10: Yuriko Saito: Everyday Aesthetics and the Good Life
11: M?d?lina Diaconu: Sensible Wellbeing. Environmental Aesthetics and Multisensory Perception
12: Sherri Irvin: On the Wellbeing of Aesthetic Beings
13: Arto Haapala: On Enjoying What There Is: The Aesthetics of Presence
14: Isis Brook: Gardening and the Power of Engagement with Nature for Mental Wellbeing
15: Sanna Lehtinen: Aesthetic Choice in the Age of Ecological Awareness
16: Salem Al Qudwa: Everyday Aesthetics and Resilience
17: Ian Kidd: Everyday Aesthetics, Happiness, and Depression
SECTION IV: SOCIAL AESTHETICS AND MENTAL HEALTH
18: Sébastien Arviset: Imaginary World-Making in Adaptation and Therapy
19: Guenda Bernegger: Spatial and Narrative Atmospheres: Social Aesthetic Perspectives
20: Michael Musalek, Oliver Scheibenbogen: Applied Social Aesthetics in Clinical Practice: The Will to Beauty and its Impact on Mental Health
21: Lazare Benaroyo: 'Inquiry on Hospitality, Compassion and
