Existential Health in an Age of Medical Totalitarianism

Autor/in	Szymanski, Adam
Titel	Existential Health in an Age of Medical Totalitarianism
Quelle	In: Journal of Philosophy of Education, 56 (2022) 1, S.94-104 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0309-8249
DOI	10.1111/1467-9752.12637
Schlagwörter	Mental Health; Critical Theory; Well Being; Social Life; COVID-19; Pandemics; Mental Disorders; Medicine; Authoritarianism + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Psychohygiene; Kritische Theorie; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Soziales Leben; Mental illness; Geisteskrankheit; Medizin; Autoritarismus
Abstract	If mental health has become a reactionary concept, much like the notion of public health in the age of the COVID-19 pandemic, then how can critical theory best elaborate a concern for well-being which includes both a psychic and social dimension? This article proposes the concept of existential health to grasp the salubrious zest for life that has been extinguished from social life since March 2020, due to rolling lockdowns and the rise of totalitarian impulses within the medical-industrial complex. It draws on the relational art practice of Lygia Clark along with developments in the psychedelic treatment of addiction to articulate a vision of existential health in an age of mental illness that is irreducible to the specialised domain of psychologists signified by the 'mental' in mental health. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01