Explorations in Mental Health
About the Book Series
The Explorations in Mental Health series draws together research, theory and practice from within the field of Mental Health, enhancing our understanding of key challenges and facilitate ongoing academic debate.
Please send inquiries or proposals for this series to one of the following:
AnnaMary Goodall: [email protected]– Editor, UK, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East
Kirsty Hardwick: [email protected] – Editor, North & South America
Vilija Stephens: [email protected] – Editor, Australia & New Zealand
Katie Peace: [email protected] – Publisher, Asia
Learning the Hard Way in Clinical Internships in Social Work and Psychology: Lessons for Safety, Boundary-Setting, and Deepening the Practicum Experience
1st Edition
By Susan A. Lord
May 22, 2026
In this book, Susan A. Lord shares important stories and lessons from two undergraduate and two postgraduate clinical internships as colorful narratives that will augment texts in undergraduate and graduate practicum seminar classes. The chapters engage with fundamental issues, including the ...
Understanding Contemporary Diet Culture through the Lens of Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory: Eating the Lack
1st Edition
By Bethany Morris
May 22, 2026
This book offers a close analysis of the relationship between diets and identity in modern Western culture through the examination of popular texts including blogs, diet books, and websites. The relationship between consumerism and identity has been explored by scholars for decades now, but less ...
Mental Healthcare in Brazilian Spiritism: The Aesthetics of Healing
1st Edition
By Helmar Kurz
December 26, 2025
This volume addresses the diversification of mental healthcare provision and patients’ health-seeking behavior by putting Brazilian Spiritism and its translocal relations at the center of its inquiry. Comparative chapters document and critically assess the affective arrangements of Spiritist spaces...
Music in Arts-Based Research and Depth Psychology: Listening for Shadow as Inclusive Inquiry
1st Edition
By Shara Brun
December 25, 2025
This book addresses an existing gap in academic arts-based research, whereby, rather than exploring music as an effective therapeutic intervention, it is explored as the central medium or tool of inquiry. Integrating heuristic, hermeneutic, and arts-based grounded theory methodologies, the book ...
Applying the Person-Centred Approach to Global, Social and Personal Crises: Contemporary Challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Mairi McMenamin, Kate Munro
September 16, 2025
Against the backdrop of current debates in society about mental health and responses to crises, this edited volume examines the person-centred approach (PCA) as a vital framework for addressing contemporary mental health challenges and promoting psychosocial resilience across diverse cultural ...
Afro-Caribbean Dynamics of Sex and Relationships: Reclaiming the Caribbean Sexual Narrative
1st Edition
Edited
By Kai A.D. Morgan Campbell
July 30, 2025
Afro-Caribbean Dynamics of Sex and Relationships: Reclaiming the Caribbean Sexual Narrative examines the complexities of sexuality and relationships in the Caribbean, shaped by colonial legacies, cultural norms, and evolving gender roles. Through seven original research studies, it explores a wide ...
Desettlering as Re-subjectification of the Settler Subject: Towards Alternative Traditions and Identity
1st Edition
By Kathleen S.G. Skott-Myhre, Hans A. Skott-Myhre, Jeffrey Galvin Smith, Scott Kouri
May 05, 2025
This book offers an intervention into the process of decolonization through the re-subjectification of the settler subject. The authors draw on what Deleuze and Guattari call minor threads of philosophy, pedagogy, spirituality, and healing practices rooted in neglected lineages of European thought ...
A Creative Health Communication Framework: Addressing the Compatibility and Marketability of Mental Health and Wellbeing Services
1st Edition
By Jane Hearst
April 29, 2025
This groundbreaking volume offers a theoretical, practical, and evidence-based approach to bridging the gap between service-users, -providers, and -commissioners in order to establish Creative Health as a valued part of healthcare, and a key player in the broader healthcare marketplace. Offering ...
A Transdisciplinary Study of Addiction: A New Framework for Drug Policy Reform
1st Edition
By Francisco Blancarte Jaber
March 25, 2025
Using novel, bioethical framing alongside critical and comprehensive analysis of harm reduction approaches, this cutting-edge book addresses the multifaceted and transdisciplinary issue of drug addiction in society, exploring how addiction can be conceptualized from various disciplinary ...
Critical Resilience and Thriving in Response to Systemic Oppression: Insights to Inform Social Justice in Critical Times
1st Edition
By Melissa L. Morgan
December 19, 2024
This book offers new insight into how individuals utilize resilience in the face of structural and social injustice. By drawing on qualitative research methods to foreground the voices of Holocaust survivors and Latinx immigrants to the United States, Critical Resilience and Thriving in Response to...
Exploring Creative Wellbeing Frameworks in Context: Nature, Culture, and Sustainable Futures
1st Edition
Edited
By Wenche Torrissen, Helga Synnevåg Løvoll
December 03, 2024
This timely edited monograph develops conceptual frameworks for creative wellbeing, exploring the impact on people’s lives and its contribution to a sustainable future, by examining case studies of how creative wellbeing is practised in a variety of contexts. Using sociocultural perspectives of ...
A Psychological Perspective on Joy and Emotional Fulfillment
1st Edition
By Chris Meadows
October 14, 2024
Throughout the history of psychology, there have been full investigations of discrete emotions (particularly negative ones) and a recent wealth of books on happiness, but few exist on the emotion of joy. This book takes a unique psychological approach to understanding this powerful emotion and ...