Author Description

"The Big Anxiety takes seriously the need to think creatively about one of the biggest crises of our time - that of mental suffering, distress and anxiety. By bringing together essays and dialogues from some of the top thinkers and artists in their fields to to creatively reimagine 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 whole-of-community concern, this book opens up critical new ways of thinking about our internal lives and the forces that affect them. This project will significantly advance the way we think about cultural responses to mental health and the reframing of the struggles of the inner life more generally. It argues for the necessity of creativity and imagination with various theoretical and practical demonstrations of how creative imagination may be activated in response to trauma, anxiety, depression, suicidality. The Big Anxiety doesn't shy away from talking about creativity as more that just a luxury but as a means of survival."--