Oxford Handbook of Mental Health and Contemporary Western Aesthetics
, by Poltrum, Martin; Musalek, Michael; Galvin, Kate; Saito, Yuriko
- ISBN: 9780192866929 | 0192866923
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 2/22/2025
Martin Poltrum, Sigmund Freud University,Michael Musalek, Sigmund Freud University,Kate Galvin, University of Brighton,Yuriko Saito, Rhode Island School of Design
Martin Poltrum is a Philosopher, Psychotherapist and Professor of Psychotherapy at Sigmund Freud University Vienna (SFU). He studied Philosophy and Education in Innsbruck, Vienna and Seville, with a 2003 Doctoral degree in Philosophy, 2014 Habilitation in Psychotherapy Science at SFU. He is Head of the Doctoral Programme in Psychotherapy Science and Deputy Head of the Institute for Behavioural Addictions and Addiction Research at SFU, as well as a teaching therapist for Existential Analysis at Danube University Krems. He is the publisher of Rausch - Vienna Journal for Addiction Treatment. His research and teaching activities are in the field of addiction and at the interface of philosophy, psychotherapy, ethics, aesthetics and medical humanities.
Michael Musalek is a Specialist for Psychiatry and Psychotherapeutic Medicine, Psychotherapist. He is Full Professor and Chair of Dept. General Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Sigmund Freud , Vienna and Director of the Institute for Social Aesthetics and Mental Health at the Sigmund Freud University Vienna and Berlin. He has published more than 350 scientific publications and is editor and scientific board member of various scientific and clinical journals. His main scientific fields of interests are social aesthetics, phenomenology of mental disorders, theoretical and clinical psychopathology, clinical diagnostics and treatment research, psychosomatics and medical humanities.
Kathleen Galvin is a Professor in Nursing having held positions at University of Hull, and University of Bournemouth before her current role at the University of Brighton. She completed her PhD at the University of Manchester focused on development of nursing practice in the promotion of health. She is a member of Academia Europea and holds visiting positions in Scandinavia and Canada. Her academic project concerns a contribution to philosophically informed theoretical insights for care, the focus is to build upon lifeworld oriented work.
Yuriko Saito received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. She taught a variety of philosophy courses at the Rhode Island School of Design, USA, from 1981-2018. Her research areas are everyday aesthetics, Japanese aesthetics, and environmental aesthetics. Her work in these areas has appeared in numerous journal articles and book chapters, encyclopedia entries, and three monographs. She has also lectured widely both within the US and outside, which included Austria, China, Finland, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Spain, and The Netherlands. She is the Editor of Contemporary Aesthetics, the first online, open-access, peer-reviewed journal in aesthetics.
Martin Poltrum is a Philosopher, Psychotherapist and Professor of Psychotherapy at Sigmund Freud University Vienna (SFU). He studied Philosophy and Education in Innsbruck, Vienna and Seville, with a 2003 Doctoral degree in Philosophy, 2014 Habilitation in Psychotherapy Science at SFU. He is Head of the Doctoral Programme in Psychotherapy Science and Deputy Head of the Institute for Behavioural Addictions and Addiction Research at SFU, as well as a teaching therapist for Existential Analysis at Danube University Krems. He is the publisher of Rausch - Vienna Journal for Addiction Treatment. His research and teaching activities are in the field of addiction and at the interface of philosophy, psychotherapy, ethics, aesthetics and medical humanities.
Michael Musalek is a Specialist for Psychiatry and Psychotherapeutic Medicine, Psychotherapist. He is Full Professor and Chair of Dept. General Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Sigmund Freud , Vienna and Director of the Institute for Social Aesthetics and Mental Health at the Sigmund Freud University Vienna and Berlin. He has published more than 350 scientific publications and is editor and scientific board member of various scientific and clinical journals. His main scientific fields of interests are social aesthetics, phenomenology of mental disorders, theoretical and clinical psychopathology, clinical diagnostics and treatment research, psychosomatics and medical humanities.
Kathleen Galvin is a Professor in Nursing having held positions at University of Hull, and University of Bournemouth before her current role at the University of Brighton. She completed her PhD at the University of Manchester focused on development of nursing practice in the promotion of health. She is a member of Academia Europea and holds visiting positions in Scandinavia and Canada. Her academic project concerns a contribution to philosophically informed theoretical insights for care, the focus is to build upon lifeworld oriented work.
Yuriko Saito received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. She taught a variety of philosophy courses at the Rhode Island School of Design, USA, from 1981-2018. Her research areas are everyday aesthetics, Japanese aesthetics, and environmental aesthetics. Her work in these areas has appeared in numerous journal articles and book chapters, encyclopedia entries, and three monographs. She has also lectured widely both within the US and outside, which included Austria, China, Finland, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Spain, and The Netherlands. She is the Editor of Contemporary Aesthetics, the first online, open-access, peer-reviewed journal in aesthetics.
SECTION I: INTRODUCTION1. Why Aesthetics Matters in Mental Health, Martin Poltrum, Yuriko Saito, Michael Musalek, Kathleen Galvin, Helena Fox2. The Participatory Turn in Museum Curation as a Model for Persons-centred Clinical Care, K.W.M Fulford, Anna Bergqvist3. Positive Psychiatry and Mental Health, Meryam Schouler-OcakSECTION II: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND BASIC IDEAS4. Platonic Proportions: Beauty, Harmony and the Good Life, Angela Hobbs5. Nietzsche's Healing Art of Transfiguration, Paul van Tongeren6. John Dewey's Aesthetic Theory and Mental Health, Thomas Leddy7. The Place of Health in Foucault's Aesthetic of Existence, Robert Wicks8. Frankfurt School Aesthetics. The Aesthetic Dialectics of Mental Health, Johan Frederik Hartle9. Aesthetic Engagement as a Pathway to Mental Health and Wellbeing, Eugene Hughes, Arnold BerleantSECTION III: ENVIRONMENTAL AESTHETICS AND WELLBEING10. Everyday Aesthetics and the Good Life, Yuriko Saito11. Sensible Wellbeing. Environmental Aesthetics and Multisensory Perception, M?d?lina Diaconu12. On the Wellbeing of Aesthetic Beings, Sherri Irvin13. On Enjoying What There Is: The Aesthetics of Presence, Arto Haapala14. Gardening and the Power of Engagement with Nature for Mental Wellbeing, Isis Brook15. Aesthetic Choice in the Age of Ecological Awareness, Sanna Lehtinen16. Everyday Aesthetics and Resilience, Salem Al Qudwa17. Everyday Aesthetics, Happiness, and Depression, Ian KiddSECTION IV: SOCIAL AESTHETICS AND MENTAL HEALTH18. Imaginary World-Making in Adaptation and Therapy, Sébastien Arviset19. Spatial and Narrative Atmospheres: Social Aesthetic Perspectives, Guenda Bernegger20. Applied Social Aesthetics in Clinical Practice: The Will to Beauty and its Impact on Mental Health, Michael Musalek, Oliver Scheibenbogen21. 'Inquiry on Hospitality, Compassion and “Antlitz” by Emmanuel Levinas', Lazare Benaroyo22. Philosophical Aesthetics in Psychiatric Practice and Education, Michael Laney, John Z. Sadler23. Unleashing Therapeutic Gain by Deploying Social Aesthetic Values in Co-Producing Healthcare Decisions, Werdie van Staden24. Images of Care: 'To the Things Themselves!', Giovanni Stanghellini, George IkkosSECTION V: LITERATURE, STORYTELLING, MOVIES AND MENTAL ILLNESS25. Mental Illness in Literature between Phenomenology and Symbolism, Dietrich v. Engelhardt26. Bibliotherapy or of the Healing Power of Reading in the Context of Cultural History, Dietrich v. Engelhardt27. An Aesthetics of Relating and its (Therapeutic) Potentials: A Transcultural Perspective on Literature, Storytelling and the Power of the (Spoken) Word, Katharina Fürholzer, Julia Pröll28. 'Everyone has a story': Aesthetic Experiences of Storytelling in The Strangers Project, Erzsébet Strausz29. 'Film is Psychosis': Filmmakers with Lived Experience, Sal Anderson, Dolly Sen30. Cinema Therapy - The Film as a Medicine. From the Silent Film Era to the Present Day, Martin Poltrum31. Connoisseurs of the Soul, Psycho Villains. Psychotherapists, Psychologists and Psychiatrists in Feature Films and Series, Martin Poltrum32. Mental Disorders in Feature Films - Addiction, Suicide, Delusion, Psychosis and Schizophrenia, Martin Poltrum33. Imaging Children's Realities in Films: Visual Anthropological Approaches and Representations of Emotions in Childhood, Alison L. KahnSECTION VI: PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, ART AND CREATIVITY34. Well-being through the poet's speaking, Kathleen Galvin35. The resurrection of the world in us: despair work, enlivenment and social aesthetics towards an eco-social future, Shelley Sacks36. Bodily Aesthetics: challenging damaging imaginaries of the body - Kathleen Lennon Art & Trauma: An Aesthetic Journey, Tania L. Abramson, Paul R. Abramson37. The Psychology of Art-Viewing: Insights from Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, Rachel Starr & Jonathan Smith38. Psychoanalysis as an Art of Meeting the Other: Now Moments, Moving along and the possibility of change, Timo Storck, Rainer Holm-Hadulla39. The aesthetics of dementia, Julian C. Hughes40. Supporting a motivated creative practice: workshops to aid creative wellbeing, Christina Reading, Jess Moriarty41. Aesthetic experience and aesthetic deprivation in hospitals, Hilary MossSECTION VII: AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE IN THE CLINIC. PERSPECTIVES AND REFLECTIONS FROM PRACTICE42. Aesthetics for everyday quality: enriching healthcare improvement debates, Alan Cribb, Graham Pullin43. Developing clinician in-sight into practice through the aesthetic lens, Louise Younie44. Aesthetic Experience in the Everyday Clinical Work of Healthcare Practitioners: A Practice-Based Description, Helena Fox45. Gardens and Human Flourishing, Sue Stuart-Smith46. The Moving Pieces Approach: Poetic Space, Embodied Creativity, Polarity, and Performances as Aspects of Aesthetic Experience, Charlie Blowers47. Aesthetics and the Clinical Encounter. Perfect moment & Privileged Moments, Femi Oyebode48. An Exploration of the Aesthetic Moment in the Clinical Encounter using Free Musical Improvisation as a Model, Andrew West49. Creative arts, aesthetic experience and the therapeutic connection in eating disorders, Jacinta Tan, Carolyn Nahman, Kiran Chitale & Stephen Anderson50. Theological Aesthetics and Clinical Care, Ariel Dempsey
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