Williams, Emma (2023) ‘Something better than a cure’ in times of mental health crisis. Education Sciences, 13 (10). 1054. doi:10.3390/educsci13101054 ISSN 2227-7102.
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Abstract
In this paper, I turn to Adam Phillips’ recent discussion of the vexed nature of cure in psychoanalysis to consider the structural differences between mental and physical health. I examine how psychoanalytic thinking raises questions for naturalistic ways of thinking about mental health and for broader crisis narratives that are becoming prevalent in Western modernity. In the latter half of this paper, I draw a comparison between thinking about matters of health and ways of thinking in the philosophy of education. I suggest that the lure of cure can be detected in statements of universalist aims and ends for education (which themselves have come to invoke conceptions of wellbeing and mental health in modern times). I also explore Phillps’ account of psychoanalysis as ‘something better than a cure’ and consider its implications for future thinking in the philosophy of education.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine R Medicine > RC Internal medicine |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Education Studies (2013- ) |
| SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router |
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Psychoanalysis, Mental health, Psychotherapy |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Education Sciences |
| Publisher: | MDPI |
| ISSN: | 2227-7102 |
| Official Date: | 20 October 2023 |
| Dates: | Date Event 20 October 2023 Published 30 October 2023 Accepted |
| Volume: | 13 |
| Number: | 10 |
| Article Number: | 1054 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/educsci13101054 |
| Status: | Peer Reviewed |
| Publication Status: | Published |
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons open licence) |
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 8 November 2023 |
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 9 November 2023 |
| Contributors: | Contribution Name Contributor ID UNSPECIFIED Papastephanou, Marianna UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Drousioti, Kalli UNSPECIFIED |
| URI: | https://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/180790/ |
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