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Everyday Aesthetics and Resilience
Authors: Al Qudwa Salem 
Published: September 2023

Abstract
This chapter attempts to set up a theoretical background around the concept of ‘the everyday’ by setting out its systematic relevance to an architectural understanding of the daily rhythms of life, and of the objects of use that populate it. What we designate with ‘Architecture of the Everyday’ constitutes both a set of theoretical tools that make sense of reality, as well as an actual practical concern with the physical structures that we ought to design and build. In keeping with Henri Lefebvre’s (1991) conceptualization of the ‘rhythm of lived spaces’ as consisting of physical setting, daily routines, and meaning, this chapter refers to the Gaza Strip as a case study to illustrate the notion of resilience and the role everyday aesthetics plays. Under novel social and health conditions, such as restrictions and overcrowding, the chapter discusses the connection between the aesthetics of everyday objects and mental health. In this vein, it considers home as a place of everyday activities, thereby uncovering the needs of low-income extended families. The main interest lies in the connection of theories regarding the architecture of the everyday, place-making, and spatial awareness with the everyday practical routines and needs of the Gaza Strip inhabitants and how these may be accommodated. In particular, the discussion explores how to improve their living conditions through the self-build approach which encourages a sense of autonomy given the on-going conflict in the region.
Everyday Aesthetics, Happiness, and Depression
Authors: Kidd Ian James 
Published: September 2023

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This chapter will introduce everyday aesthetics and conceptions of happiness, explore their interconnections, and indicate some ways they might relate to depression. I introduce the main claims and concerns of everyday aesthetics and illustrate these with examples from the Indian, Chinese, and Japanese philosophical traditions. Everyday aesthetics recognizes that aesthetic experience is not confined to appreciation of artworks but extends to many everyday activities, environments, and experiences. I then consider two influential accounts of happiness—‘hedonic’ and ‘life-satisfaction’ theories—and indicate ways that they connect to aesthetics. I suggest an alternative phenomenological account of happiness. Aesthetic appreciation and agency and happiness, it is argued, depend on a phenomenologically fundamental capacity to experience different kinds of significant possibility. What emerges is the idea that our experiential, evaluative, and practical abilities depend on phenomenological capacities which are subject to radical disruption. It is the loss or disruption of that capacity which characterizes experiences of depression.
Imaginary World-Making in Adaptation and Therapy
Authors: Arviset Sébastien 
Published: September 2023

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In this chapter, I will argue that imaginary world-making understood as an authoring-forth can offer an interesting complement or alternative to narrative therapy and its re-authoring process, as well a new direction for therapists to assist patients in developing their adaptative capabilities. I will first explore what an author and co-authors are. Secondly, I will determine what the main characteristics of a narrative are. This will help bring into focus some of the problems that narrative re-authoring entails, since what patients are expected to produce, far from being personal, is in fact determined by a very precise and formalized literary paradigm. In the third part of this essay, while highlighting some of narrative therapy’s other problematic areas, I will argue that it can still be useful as a preliminary step in the therapeutic process, preparing patients for the authoring-forth of world-making, in order to adapt to, and build, their future, while switching from a narrow artistic paradigm to a holistic aesthetic one.
Spatial and Narrative Atmospheres
Authors: Bernegger Guenda 
Published: September 2023

Abstract
Atmosphere is a central dimension of the human experience, which plays a crucial role in medical practice: it affects the quality of the encounter as well as the patient’s trust in the therapist and the adherence to the treatment. Each atmosphere is influenced primarily by spatial, intersubjective, and narrative elements which affect what can or cannot happen within it. Particularly in the psychiatric context, the atmosphere turns out to be vitally important, from the diagnostic level to the therapeutic one. However, like other aesthetic dimensions included in clinical settings, its importance often goes unrecognized, with the resulting risk of uncontrolled, adverse clinical effects. The quality of care and the success of the treatment can instead significantly benefit from the understanding and control of the atmospheric component of clinical settings, with the support of the social aesthetics perspective, its epistemological framework, and its instruments.
Applied Social Aesthetics in Clinical Practice
Authors: Musalek Michael , Scheibenbogen Oliver 
Published: September 2023

Abstract
Social aesthetics understood as the science of sensuously experienced encounters and relationships in general and of interpersonal encounters and relationships in particular provides us with knowledge that in medical-therapeutic practice becomes a key pillar of human-centred approaches to prevention and treatment. It is thus not only a science, but also an art that can be unfolded and developed as applied social aesthetics. As social and communicative beings we are the ones who create our world. How this world of ours is constituted, how we are able to live and experience it, depends on all of us. For those who practise social aesthetics in medicine, the question of how to create and shape life is a constant one and puts social aesthetics at the heart of the medical approach. The chief areas of interest in applied social aesthetics in medicine are above all the style of initial contact with the patient, para-verbality in patient encounters and the elegance of diagnostics, most notably the attractiveness of treatment forms, social-aesthetic therapy goals, providing new possibilities for patients’ cosmopoiesis/cosmopoetics. In the cosmopoetic processes (= development and creation of a beautiful and joyful life) the general Will to Beauty plays a crucial role. The Will to Beauty appears on the one hand as a natural force which attracts us and provides the power which we need for solving our problems and on the other hand it can be used as a cultural force which enables us to create a better and more joyful life.
Inquiry on Hospitality, Compassion, and ‘Antlitz’ by Emmanuel Levinas
Authors: Benaroyo Lazare 
Published: September 2023

Abstract
In the context of contemporary debates on the philosophical foundations of medical practice, this chapter explores the anthropological, epistemological, and ethical dimensions of clinical activity. Against this background, I endeavour to show how Emmanuel Levinas’ conception of ethical responsibility may help us to grasp the ethical core of clinical care. I argue that the meaning Levinas gives to the terms face availability and hospitality is a central aspect related to this issue. The face is in this French philosopher’s view precisely this irreducibility of alterity that lights up its ethical meaning. Accordingly, responsibility, shaped by welcoming, availability, and hospitality is the ethical response to the interpellation of the other’s face. I suggest that Levinas’ philosophical insight constitutes a conception of ethical responsibility that may bear great significance to a renewed understanding of aesthetics and ethics of medical care.
Philosophical Aesthetics in Psychiatric Practice and Education
Authors: Laney Michael , Sadler John Z. 
Published: September 2023

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In this chapter we explore roles for philosophical aesthetics in contributing to excellent psychiatric practice and education. We situate aesthetics and aesthetic values alongside moral, epistemic, and pragmatic values in informing the quality of our clinical work, and by extension, the quality of our psychiatric educational efforts. After considering some of the fundamental concepts of aesthetics, we show how they are revealed in a range of clinical phenomena, from DSM diagnostic category descriptions, to moments in psychotherapy, to how we describe both compelling and dull clinical interviews. We consider aesthetic values as part of a clinical praxis where formally beautiful clinical skills can be described as ‘aesthetic virtues’ and explore how cultivating these aesthetic virtues could be built into psychiatric training.
Mental Illness in Literature between Phenomenology and Symbolism
Authors: Engelhardt Dietrich V. 
Published: September 2023

Abstract
Psychiatry is a central topic of literature. From ancient times to the present day the mental patient and his illness, the psychiatrist and his therapy, the psychiatric institution and the reactions of society are described and interpreted. The literary texts cover the entire range from phenomenon to symbolism and are affected by the changes of time and place. Aesthetics and ethics are connected, the literary descriptions and interpretations are confronted with the psychiatric or scientific understanding—both influence and stimulate each other. Psychiatry itself combines art (ars) and science (scientia), literature on the other hand can support diagnosis and therapy. In the medium of literature, mental illness appears as a physical, psychological, social, and mental or cultural phenomenon, as a factual as well as normative judgement. In its differentiated, and at the same time broad and holistic perspective, literature offers a fascinating and essential approach to mental illness for laypeople and psychiatrists alike, contributes to medical humanities as humane and human medicine.
Virgil’s Keepsakes
Authors: Mattoni Silvio 
Published: September 2023

Abstract
The theme of memory is especially active in the books of poetry Borges published over the last twenty-five years of his life, but it is a motif that lasted a lifetime. Someone remembers or someone is remembered, and in that improbable coincidence lies the justification for poetry. Thus, writing does not seek permanence or posterity but rather to approach that point where words touch the essential elements of an existence. In the course of oblivion, there are words or verses that are forgotten and repeated, but there the thread of memory of the poet Virgil appears and disappears, passes from inner experience to a verse, or, through a verse, is returned to the imminence of an aesthetic revelation. This chapter sheds light on that long relationship with a classic poet who, for Borges, unites some of literature’s most vital possibilities.
Borges in the Eastern Bloc
Authors: Scholz László 
Published: September 2023

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This chapter explores the most relevant features of Borges’s presence in Central and Eastern Europe chronologically, from his earliest translations to the collapse of the Eastern Bloc in 1991. The theoretical framework is based on relationships between center and periphery and the mechanisms of polysystems. The chapter discusses different forms of censorship and self-censorship, as well as the various ruses editors used to evade Soviet control during the period known as “the Thaw.” Muscovites’ image of Latin American literature, as well as the decisive function carried out by Mitteleuropa in the westernization of the Bloc, are also discussed.
Borges and the Formation of the Literary Global South
Authors: Corwin Jay 
Published: September 2023

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The geopolitical term “Global South” encompasses Latin America, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, and South and Southeast Asia. Questions of the reception and reaction to Borges’s writing and influence in these areas, particularly outside of Latin America, are of great interest especially in consideration of the aesthetic gems from these regions that play a large part in Borges’s fiction: The Thousand and One Nights, the Old Testament, the Qur’an, and Classical Persian poetry, among other writings. Consequently, it may be argued that because Borges repurposes and inlays his fiction with classical texts, history, and religions from these regions, his influences on successive generations of writers from the Global South are both pertinent and inevitable. Claims of “orientalism” and “Islamophobia” have been laid unsuccessfully by critics unfamiliar with Borges’s broader oeuvre (Ian Almond) after having been rejected in the text that re-envisions the term “orientalism” (Said). Primary and secondary influences of Borges are inevitable in writers from the Global South and further afield who have adopted late twentieth-century aesthetic values that may be attributed partly or entirely to the writings of Borges.
Borges in French Theory
Authors: Bosteels Bruno 
Published: September 2023

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Starting in the early 1960s, Jorge Luis Borges quickly became a celebrity among French thinkers. Philosophers such as Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Jean-François Lyotard, and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe; historians such as Michel Foucault; semiologists such as Julia Kristeva; or sociologists such as Jean Baudrillard all had recourse at one point or another to ideas and formulations from the Argentine writer. In addition to the appeal of Borges’s unique style of writing and thinking, two lines of affinity brought about this unexpected confluence of interests: the shared critique of the subjectivity of “man,” or of the human at the center of the discourse of the human sciences, and the critique of language as “mimesis,” or as the imitation or representation of the real. However, what soon thereafter in the Anglophone world would come to be known as “French theory,” by giving entrance to Borges in some of its most significant early texts, may well have been welcoming into its midst the uncanny force of a Trojan horse. Indeed, the Argentine’s own theoretical and philosophical commitments always tended to favor a tradition that for the longest time was anathema to the whole Parisian philosophical scene, namely, the tradition of New England pragmatism. However, the point of contrasting the two is not to signal a supposed misreading so much as to see what we can learn from this about some of Borges’s most famous readers in France.
Digital Religion Futures
Authors: Cheong Pauline Hope , Campbell Heidi A. 
Published: September 2023

Abstract
This chapter considers the complexities surrounding the future of digital religion. It notes that an integrative understanding of lived religious experiences involving creative complexities and tensions illustrates also the understanding of evolving physical and virtual ontologies. Thus, the emergence of numerous religious human and machinic actors serves as a key element of ontological development, adaptation, and innovation. Everyday religious practices evolved alongside a growing diversity of platform adoption during the global COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover, growing numbers of religious communities now exist in a hybrid form, providing their members with digital and offline services as ways to engage. The chapter discusses how much work is needed in addressing the complexities of gender and agency in digital religion in the future.
Attention, Memory, and the Imagination
Authors: Timalsina Sthaneshwar 
Published: September 2023

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Tantric visualization practices based on specific images and sounds, as well as the philosophies behind these practices, provide a window for exploring the scope of attention, memory, and imagination in their intentional and extended forms. If ongoing research in the field of cognitive science can help us understand and contextualize these otherwise esoteric practices, then these exercises can also provide empirical evidence for extending the scope of research in these areas of cognitive research. Just as neural analysis can tell us more about a real physiological impact of extended visualization practices, the practitioners can give us their internal phenomenological account of specific experiences corresponding to those physiological states. Rather than simply understanding the neural correlates of everyday experiences, the benefit of focusing on the effects of sustained meditative practices expands the horizon of human consciousness by excavating the limits of the human mind in even its extended state.
Ella Lyman Cabot’s Everyday Ethics
Authors: Matherne Samantha 
Published: September 2023

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This chapter explores the basic ethical view that Lyman Cabot defends in her first book, Everyday Ethics. After situating her approach to ethics against the backdrop of the American idealist and pragmatist traditions she responds to, it lays out her account of the broad scope of ethics, the role that individualism and self-expression play in ethics, and various ethical characteristics and capacities she thinks we should avoid (e.g., blind habit and prejudice) and cultivate (sympathy, imagination, and open-mindedness). It also addresses Lyman Cabot’s response to a challenge that her ethical program might seem to face, the challenge of self-centeredness, and the theory of self and our relation to others that she develops in this context. Finally, it investigates the emphasis that she places on the role of vision in our ethical lives, including how the way we see is shaped by our individual interests and purposes and how we should learn to see others and ethical opportunities the world affords.
Risk Assessment, Intervention, and Guidance for First Responders and Medical Settings
Authors: Westers Nicholas J. , Tinsley Brittany 
Published: September 2023

Abstract
Healthcare providers in medical settings often serve as first responders in treating individuals who engage in nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI). This chapter highlights the importance of interpersonal style, self-awareness, and how medical professionals can and should screen for NSSI. It then introduces risk assessment models and highlights important questions for first responders to integrate into their interviews with patients to determine next steps in care. This chapter offers sample questions to use in clinical practice and extends these to a discussion about how first responders can effectively intervene, care for wounds, and provide brief, targeted medical advice to those who self-injure. It discusses challenges, recommendations, and future considerations related to NSSI risk assessment research and ends with a discussion about ethical concerns. This chapter considers the perspective of individuals with lived experience of NSSI and encourages first responders to reflect on how their clinical care may be perceived by those who self-injure at all points of the medical encounter. Key takeaways include:
Promising Approaches to Prevention and Intervention in Higher Education
Authors: Morena Alexandra L. , Trisal Akshay V. , Lloyd-Richardson Elizabeth E. 
Published: September 2023

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This chapter aims to briefly summarize existing research examining NSSI among those attending university, highlighting the prevalence and other significant descriptive characteristics of NSSI on college campuses, risk factors, and the key characteristics linking NSSI and suicidal behavior. The authors acknowledge a wide range of prevention and intervention strategies that can and should be employed for university students and that capitalize on the strengths offered by integrating key stakeholders (e.g., peers, faculty, and campus counseling services). The authors explore and describe brief peer- and classroom-based intervention strategies that are currently implemented in the university context. Additionally, the authors offer recommendations for improving existing strategies to more explicitly include NSSI-specific content along with future considerations for improving prevention and universal interventions in the university context, and how doing so can directly target and promote NSSI prevention among university students. Although the research in the area of individual-level intervention approaches is limited, university settings offer promising opportunities to deliver multifaceted approaches designed to offer multiple “doses” of intervention to support students’ mental health throughout their years attending university and beyond.
Digital Interventions for Nonsuicidal Self-Injury
Authors: Kruzan Kaylee P. , Whitlock Janis L. 
Published: September 2023

Abstract
This chapter focuses on digital interventions for nonsuicidal self-injury. In line with the presence and influence of new media in daily life, Internet-based websites and applications have become popular places for clinical and broader public health interventions. The proliferation of new digital technologies has resulted in considerations about how to best design resources capable of meeting people in online spaces and how to augment the accessibility of existing evidence-based interventions. Thus, researchers, clinicians, and other health service professionals must be aware of how to assess the strengths and limitations of digital offerings. The chapter discusses existing clinical trials of digital interventions, such as Autobiographical Self-Enhancement Training (ASET) and Self-injury: Treatment, Assessment and Recovery (STAR). It also considers user engagement, safety, privacy, risk management, ethics, and the accessibility of digital interventions.
Cross-Cultural Representations of NSSI
Authors: Wilson Marc Stewart 
Published: September 2023

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Much of what we know about nonsuicidal self-injury is based on research and practice from cultures that can be described as Western and English-speaking, but there is increasing appreciation of the need to step outside these traditional boundaries. This chapter summarizes research comparing nonsuicidal self-injury characteristics and correlates across four “families” of research: explicit comparisons across nations, considering minority groups within nations, conducted on non-Western/English-speaking nations, and among indigenous minorities. This research highlights variation that may be attributable to culture but that may not have been fully informed by what “culture” means. Therefore, the author explores how cultural and cross-cultural research can contribute to our understanding, with particular attention to the notion of “cultural scripts” in the context of mental health in general, and nonsuicidal self-injury in particular. Finally, the author considers nonsuicidal self-injury in cultural contexts that aren’t defined, as has traditionally been done, by national or ethnic distinctions.