Mark, Mutuality, and Mental Health

Mark, Mutuality, and Mental Health
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Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
Total Pages : 375
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ISBN-10 : 9781589839861
ISBN-13 : 1589839862
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Book Synopsis Mark, Mutuality, and Mental Health by : Simon Mainwaring

Download or read book Mark, Mutuality, and Mental Health written by Simon Mainwaring and published by Society of Biblical Lit. This book was released on 2014-08-11 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incitement to re-assess how society relates to persons with poor mental health Mainwaring explores the societal contexts of those who suffer poor mental health, and in particular the relational dynamics of how identity, agency, and dialogue are negotiated in personal encounters. This work seeks to serve as an experiment, such that interested readers might better understand the dynamics of relational power that pervade encounters with persons with poor mental health. Features: Foucauldian analysis of the relational dynamics of poor mental health used to re-imagine hegemonic relational dynamics Close readings of encounters between individual characters to evaluate how mutuality operates in those encounters Study of mutuality as it has emerged in mental health literature, feminist theologies, and theologies of disability


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