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- Title
'Something Better than a Cure' in Times of Mental Health Crisis.
- Authors
Williams, Emma
- 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.
- Subjects
MENTAL health; EDUCATIONAL objectives; WELL-being; PSYCHOANALYSIS; CRISES; PHILOSOPHY of education
- Publication
Education Sciences, 2023, Vol 13, Issue 10, p1054
- ISSN
2227-7102
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/educsci13101054