Martin Poltrum is a Philosopher, Psychotherapist and Professor of Psychotherapy at Sigmund Freud University Vienna (SFU). He studied Philosophy and Education in Innsbruck, Vienna and Seville, with a 2003 Doctoral degree in Philosophy, 2014 Habilitation in Psychotherapy Science at SFU. He is Head of the Doctoral Programme in Psychotherapy Science and Deputy Head of the Institute for Behavioural Addictions and Addiction Research at SFU, as well as a teaching therapist for Existential Analysis at Danube University Krems. He is the publisher of Rausch - Vienna Journal for Addiction Treatment. His research and teaching activities are in the field of addiction and at the interface of philosophy, psychotherapy, ethics, aesthetics and medical humanities.Michael Musalek is a Specialist for Psychiatry and Psychotherapeutic Medicine, Psychotherapist. He is Full Professor and Chair of Dept. General Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Sigmund Freud , Vienna and Director of the Institute for Social Aesthetics and Mental Health at the Sigmund Freud University Vienna and Berlin. He has published more than 350 scientific publications and is editor and scientific board member of various scientific and clinical journals. His main scientific fields of interests are social aesthetics, phenomenology of mental disorders, theoretical and clinical psychopathology, clinical diagnostics and treatment research, psychosomatics and medical humanities.Kathleen Galvin is a Professor in Nursing having held positions at University of Hull, and University of Bournemouth before her current role at the University of Brighton. She completed her PhD at the University of Manchester focused on development of nursing practice in the promotion of health. She is a member of Academia Europea and holds visiting positions in Scandinavia and Canada. Her academic project concerns a contribution to philosophically informed theoretical insights for care, the focus is to build upon lifeworld oriented work.Yuriko Saito received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. She taught a variety of philosophy courses at the Rhode Island School of Design, USA, from 1981-2018. Her research areas are everyday aesthetics, Japanese aesthetics, and environmental aesthetics. Her work in these areas has appeared in numerous journal articles and book chapters, encyclopedia entries, and three monographs. She has also lectured widely both within the US and outside, which included Austria, China, Finland, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Spain, and The Netherlands. She is the Editor of Contemporary Aesthetics, the first online, open-access, peer-reviewed journal in aesthetics.

• SECTION I: INTRODUCTION 1: Martin Poltrum, Yuriko Saito, Michael Musalek, Kathleen Galvin, Helena Fox: Why Aesthetics Matters in Mental Health 2: K.W.M Fulford, Anna Bergqvist: The Participatory Turn in Museum Curation as a Model for Persons-centred Clinical Care 3: Meryam Schouler-Ocak: Positive Psychiatry and Mental Health SECTION II: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND BASIC IDEAS 4: Angela Hobbs: Platonic Proportions: Beauty, Harmony and the Good Life 5: Paul van Tongeren: Nietzsche's Healing Art of Transfiguration 6: Thomas Leddy: John Dewey's Aesthetic Theory and Mental Health 7: Robert Wicks: The Place of Health in Foucault's Aesthetic of Existence 8: Johan Frederik Hartle: Frankfurt School Aesthetics. The Aesthetic Dialectics of Mental Health 9: Eugene Hughes, Arnold Berleant: Aesthetic Engagement as a Pathway to Mental Health and Wellbeing SECTION III: ENVIRONMENTAL AESTHETICS AND WELLBEING 10: Yuriko Saito: Everyday Aesthetics and the Good Life 11: M?d?lina Diaconu: Sensible Wellbeing. Environmental Aesthetics and Multisensory Perception 12: Sherri Irvin: On the Wellbeing of Aesthetic Beings 13: Arto Haapala: On Enjoying What There Is: The Aesthetics of Presence 14: Isis Brook: Gardening and the Power of Engagement with Nature for Mental Wellbeing 15: Sanna Lehtinen: Aesthetic Choice in the Age of Ecological Awareness 16: Salem Al Qudwa: Everyday Aesthetics and Resilience 17: Ian Kidd: Everyday Aesthetics, Happiness, and Depression SECTION IV: SOCIAL AESTHETICS AND MENTAL HEALTH 18: Sébastien Arviset: Imaginary World-Making in Adaptation and Therapy 19: Guenda Bernegger: Spatial and Narrative Atmospheres: Social Aesthetic Perspectives 20: Michael Musalek, Oliver Scheibenbogen: Applied Social Aesthetics in Clinical Practice: The Will to Beauty and its Impact on Mental Health 21: Lazare Benaroyo: 'Inquiry on Hospitality, Compassion and <"Antlitz> " by Emmanuel Levinas' 22: Michael Laney, John Z. Sadler: Philosophical Aesthetics in Psychiatric Practice and Education 23: Werdie van Staden: Unleashing Therapeutic Gain by Deploying Social Aesthetic Values in Co-Producing Healthcare Decisions 24: Giovanni Stanghellini, George Ikkos: Images of Care: 'To the Things Themselves!' SECTION V: LITERATURE, STORYTELLING, MOVIES AND MENTAL ILLNESS 25: Dietrich v. Engelhardt: Mental Illness in Literature between Phenomenology and Symbolism 26: Dietrich v. Engelhardt: Bibliotherapy or of the Healing Power of Reading in the Context of Cultural History 27: Katharina Fürholzer, Julia Pröll: An Aesthetics of Relating and its (Therapeutic) Potentials: A Transcultural Perspective on Literature, Storytelling and the Power of the (Spoken) Word 28: Erzsébet Strausz: 'Everyone has a story': Aesthetic Experiences of Storytelling in The Strangers Project 29: Sal Anderson, Dolly Sen: 'Film is Psychosis': Filmmakers with Lived Experience 30: Martin Poltrum: Cinema Therapy - The Film as a Medicine. From the Silent Film Era to the Present Day 31: Martin Poltrum: Connoisseurs of the Soul, Psycho Villains. Psychotherapists, Psychologists and Psychiatrists in Feature Films and Series 32: Martin Poltrum: Mental Disorders in Feature Films - Addiction, Suicide, Delusion, Psychosis and Schizophrenia 33: Alison L. Kahn: Imaging Children's Realities in Films: Visual Anthropological Approaches and Representations of Emotions in Childhood SECTION VI: PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, ART AND CREATIVITY 34: Kathleen Galvin: Well-being through the poet's speaking 35: Shelley Sacks: Social-Aesthetic Strategies for a Change of Heart 35: Tania L. Abramson, Paul R. Abramson: Bodily Aesthetics: Challenging damaging imaginaries of the body - Kathleen Lennon Art & Trauma: An Aesthetic Journey 37: Rachel Starr & Jonathan Smith: The Psychology of Art-Viewing: Insights from Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis 38: Timo Storck, Rainer Holm-Hadulla: Psychoanalysis as an Art of Meeting the Other: Now Moments, Moving along and the possibility of change 39: Julian C. Hughes: The aesthetics of dementia 40: Christina Reading, Jess Moriarty: Supporting a motivated creative practice: workshops to aid creative wellbeing 41: Hilary Moss: Aesthetic experience and aesthetic deprivation in hospitals SECTION VII: AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE IN THE CLINIC. PERSPECTIVES AND REFLECTIONS FROM PRACTICE 42: Alan Cribb, Graham Pullin: Aesthetics for everyday quality: enriching healthcare improvement debates 43: Louise Younie: Developing clinician in-sight into practice through the aesthetic lens 44: Helena Fox: Aesthetic Experience in the Everyday Clinical Work of Healthcare Practitioners: A Practice-Based Description 45: Sue Stuart-Smith: Gardens and Human Flourishing 46: Charlie Blowers: The Moving Pieces Approach: Poetic Space, Embodied Creativity, Polarity, and Performances as Aspects of Aesthetic Experience 47: Femi Oyebode: Aesthetics and the Clinical Encounter. Perfect moment & Privileged Moments 48: Andrew West: An Exploration of the Aesthetic Moment in the Clinical Encounter using Free Musical Improvisation as a Model 49: Jacinta Tan, Carolyn Nahman, Kiran Chitale & Stephen Anderson: Creative arts, aesthetic experience and the therapeutic connection in eating disorders 50: Ariel Dempsey: Theological Aesthetics and Clinical Care

Martin Poltrum is a Philosopher, Psychotherapist and Professor of Psychotherapy at Sigmund Freud University Vienna (SFU). He studied Philosophy and Education in Innsbruck, Vienna and Seville, with a 2003 Doctoral degree in Philosophy, 2014 Habilitation in Psychotherapy Science at SFU. He is Head of the Doctoral Programme in Psychotherapy Science and Deputy Head of the Institute for Behavioural Addictions and Addiction Research at SFU, as well as a teaching therapist for Existential Analysis at Danube University Krems. He is the publisher of Rausch - Vienna Journal for Addiction Treatment. His research and teaching activities are in the field of addiction and at the interface of philosophy, psychotherapy, ethics, aesthetics and medical humanities.Michael Musalek is a Specialist for Psychiatry and Psychotherapeutic Medicine, Psychotherapist. He is Full Professor and Chair of Dept. General Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Sigmund Freud , Vienna and Director of the Institute for Social Aesthetics and Mental Health at the Sigmund Freud University Vienna and Berlin. He has published more than 350 scientific publications and is editor and scientific board member of various scientific and clinical journals. His main scientific fields of interests are social aesthetics, phenomenology of mental disorders, theoretical and clinical psychopathology, clinical diagnostics and treatment research, psychosomatics and medical humanities.Kathleen Galvin is a Professor in Nursing having held positions at University of Hull, and University of Bournemouth before her current role at the University of Brighton. She completed her PhD at the University of Manchester focused on development of nursing practice in the promotion of health. She is a member of Academia Europea and holds visiting positions in Scandinavia and Canada. Her academic project concerns a contribution to philosophically informed theoretical insights for care, the focus is to build upon lifeworld oriented work.Yuriko Saito received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. She taught a variety of philosophy courses at the Rhode Island School of Design, USA, from 1981-2018. Her research areas are everyday aesthetics, Japanese aesthetics, and environmental aesthetics. Her work in these areas has appeared in numerous journal articles and book chapters, encyclopedia entries, and three monographs. She has also lectured widely both within the US and outside, which included Austria, China, Finland, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Spain, and The Netherlands. She is the Editor of Contemporary Aesthetics, the first online, open-access, peer-reviewed journal in aesthetics.

• SECTION I: INTRODUCTION 1: Martin Poltrum, Yuriko Saito, Michael Musalek, Kathleen Galvin, Helena Fox: Why Aesthetics Matters in Mental Health 2: K.W.M Fulford, Anna Bergqvist: The Participatory Turn in Museum Curation as a Model for Persons-centred Clinical Care 3: Meryam Schouler-Ocak: Positive Psychiatry and Mental Health SECTION II: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND BASIC IDEAS 4: Angela Hobbs: Platonic Proportions: Beauty, Harmony and the Good Life 5: Paul van Tongeren: Nietzsche's Healing Art of Transfiguration 6: Thomas Leddy: John Dewey's Aesthetic Theory and Mental Health 7: Robert Wicks: The Place of Health in Foucault's Aesthetic of Existence 8: Johan Frederik Hartle: Frankfurt School Aesthetics. The Aesthetic Dialectics of Mental Health 9: Eugene Hughes, Arnold Berleant: Aesthetic Engagement as a Pathway to Mental Health and Wellbeing SECTION III: ENVIRONMENTAL AESTHETICS AND WELLBEING 10: Yuriko Saito: Everyday Aesthetics and the Good Life 11: M?d?lina Diaconu: Sensible Wellbeing. Environmental Aesthetics and Multisensory Perception 12: Sherri Irvin: On the Wellbeing of Aesthetic Beings 13: Arto Haapala: On Enjoying What There Is: The Aesthetics of Presence 14: Isis Brook: Gardening and the Power of Engagement with Nature for Mental Wellbeing 15: Sanna Lehtinen: Aesthetic Choice in the Age of Ecological Awareness 16: Salem Al Qudwa: Everyday Aesthetics and Resilience 17: Ian Kidd: Everyday Aesthetics, Happiness, and Depression SECTION IV: SOCIAL AESTHETICS AND MENTAL HEALTH 18: Sébastien Arviset: Imaginary World-Making in Adaptation and Therapy 19: Guenda Bernegger: Spatial and Narrative Atmospheres: Social Aesthetic Perspectives 20: Michael Musalek, Oliver Scheibenbogen: Applied Social Aesthetics in Clinical Practice: The Will to Beauty and its Impact on Mental Health 21: Lazare Benaroyo: 'Inquiry on Hospitality, Compassion and <"Antlitz> " by Emmanuel Levinas' 22: Michael Laney, John Z. Sadler: Philosophical Aesthetics in Psychiatric Practice and Education 23: Werdie van Staden: Unleashing Therapeutic Gain by Deploying Social Aesthetic Values in Co-Producing Healthcare Decisions 24: Giovanni Stanghellini, George Ikkos: Images of Care: 'To the Things Themselves!' SECTION V: LITERATURE, STORYTELLING, MOVIES AND MENTAL ILLNESS 25: Dietrich v. Engelhardt: Mental Illness in Literature between Phenomenology and Symbolism 26: Dietrich v. Engelhardt: Bibliotherapy or of the Healing Power of Reading in the Context of Cultural History 27: Katharina Fürholzer, Julia Pröll: An Aesthetics of Relating and its (Therapeutic) Potentials: A Transcultural Perspective on Literature, Storytelling and the Power of the (Spoken) Word 28: Erzsébet Strausz: 'Everyone has a story': Aesthetic Experiences of Storytelling in The Strangers Project 29: Sal Anderson, Dolly Sen: 'Film is Psychosis': Filmmakers with Lived Experience 30: Martin Poltrum: Cinema Therapy - The Film as a Medicine. From the Silent Film Era to the Present Day 31: Martin Poltrum: Connoisseurs of the Soul, Psycho Villains. Psychotherapists, Psychologists and Psychiatrists in Feature Films and Series 32: Martin Poltrum: Mental Disorders in Feature Films - Addiction, Suicide, Delusion, Psychosis and Schizophrenia 33: Alison L. Kahn: Imaging Children's Realities in Films: Visual Anthropological Approaches and Representations of Emotions in Childhood SECTION VI: PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, ART AND CREATIVITY 34: Kathleen Galvin: Well-being through the poet's speaking 35: Shelley Sacks: Social-Aesthetic Strategies for a Change of Heart 35: Tania L. Abramson, Paul R. Abramson: Bodily Aesthetics: Challenging damaging imaginaries of the body - Kathleen Lennon Art & Trauma: An Aesthetic Journey 37: Rachel Starr & Jonathan Smith: The Psychology of Art-Viewing: Insights from Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis 38: Timo Storck, Rainer Holm-Hadulla: Psychoanalysis as an Art of Meeting the Other: Now Moments, Moving along and the possibility of change 39: Julian C. Hughes: The aesthetics of dementia 40: Christina Reading, Jess Moriarty: Supporting a motivated creative practice: workshops to aid creative wellbeing 41: Hilary Moss: Aesthetic experience and aesthetic deprivation in hospitals SECTION VII: AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE IN THE CLINIC. PERSPECTIVES AND REFLECTIONS FROM PRACTICE 42: Alan Cribb, Graham Pullin: Aesthetics for everyday quality: enriching healthcare improvement debates 43: Louise Younie: Developing clinician in-sight into practice through the aesthetic lens 44: Helena Fox: Aesthetic Experience in the Everyday Clinical Work of Healthcare Practitioners: A Practice-Based Description 45: Sue Stuart-Smith: Gardens and Human Flourishing 46: Charlie Blowers: The Moving Pieces Approach: Poetic Space, Embodied Creativity, Polarity, and Performances as Aspects of Aesthetic Experience 47: Femi Oyebode: Aesthetics and the Clinical Encounter. Perfect moment & Privileged Moments 48: Andrew West: An Exploration of the Aesthetic Moment in the Clinical Encounter using Free Musical Improvisation as a Model 49: Jacinta Tan, Carolyn Nahman, Kiran Chitale & Stephen Anderson: Creative arts, aesthetic experience and the therapeutic connection in eating disorders 50: Ariel Dempsey: Theological Aesthetics and Clinical Care

Martin Poltrum is a Philosopher, Psychotherapist and Professor of Psychotherapy at Sigmund Freud University Vienna (SFU). He studied Philosophy and Education in Innsbruck, Vienna and Seville, with a 2003 Doctoral degree in Philosophy, 2014 Habilitation in Psychotherapy Science at SFU. He is Head of the Doctoral Programme in Psychotherapy Science and Deputy Head of the Institute for Behavioural Addictions and Addiction Research at SFU, as well as a teaching therapist for Existential Analysis at Danube University Krems. He is the publisher of Rausch - Vienna Journal for Addiction Treatment. His research and teaching activities are in the field of addiction and at the interface of philosophy, psychotherapy, ethics, aesthetics and medical humanities.Michael Musalek is a Specialist for Psychiatry and Psychotherapeutic Medicine, Psychotherapist. He is Full Professor and Chair of Dept. General Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Sigmund Freud , Vienna and Director of the Institute for Social Aesthetics and Mental Health at the Sigmund Freud University Vienna and Berlin. He has published more than 350 scientific publications and is editor and scientific board member of various scientific and clinical journals. His main scientific fields of interests are social aesthetics, phenomenology of mental disorders, theoretical and clinical psychopathology, clinical diagnostics and treatment research, psychosomatics and medical humanities.Kathleen Galvin is a Professor in Nursing having held positions at University of Hull, and University of Bournemouth before her current role at the University of Brighton. She completed her PhD at the University of Manchester focused on development of nursing practice in the promotion of health. She is a member of Academia Europea and holds visiting positions in Scandinavia and Canada. Her academic project concerns a contribution to philosophically informed theoretical insights for care, the focus is to build upon lifeworld oriented work.Yuriko Saito received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. She taught a variety of philosophy courses at the Rhode Island School of Design, USA, from 1981-2018. Her research areas are everyday aesthetics, Japanese aesthetics, and environmental aesthetics. Her work in these areas has appeared in numerous journal articles and book chapters, encyclopedia entries, and three monographs. She has also lectured widely both within the US and outside, which included Austria, China, Finland, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Spain, and The Netherlands. She is the Editor of Contemporary Aesthetics, the first online, open-access, peer-reviewed journal in aesthetics.

• SECTION I: INTRODUCTION 1: Martin Poltrum, Yuriko Saito, Michael Musalek, Kathleen Galvin, Helena Fox: Why Aesthetics Matters in Mental Health 2: K.W.M Fulford, Anna Bergqvist: The Participatory Turn in Museum Curation as a Model for Persons-centred Clinical Care 3: Meryam Schouler-Ocak: Positive Psychiatry and Mental Health SECTION II: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND BASIC IDEAS 4: Angela Hobbs: Platonic Proportions: Beauty, Harmony and the Good Life 5: Paul van Tongeren: Nietzsche's Healing Art of Transfiguration 6: Thomas Leddy: John Dewey's Aesthetic Theory and Mental Health 7: Robert Wicks: The Place of Health in Foucault's Aesthetic of Existence 8: Johan Frederik Hartle: Frankfurt School Aesthetics. The Aesthetic Dialectics of Mental Health 9: Eugene Hughes, Arnold Berleant: Aesthetic Engagement as a Pathway to Mental Health and Wellbeing SECTION III: ENVIRONMENTAL AESTHETICS AND WELLBEING 10: Yuriko Saito: Everyday Aesthetics and the Good Life 11: M?d?lina Diaconu: Sensible Wellbeing. Environmental Aesthetics and Multisensory Perception 12: Sherri Irvin: On the Wellbeing of Aesthetic Beings 13: Arto Haapala: On Enjoying What There Is: The Aesthetics of Presence 14: Isis Brook: Gardening and the Power of Engagement with Nature for Mental Wellbeing 15: Sanna Lehtinen: Aesthetic Choice in the Age of Ecological Awareness 16: Salem Al Qudwa: Everyday Aesthetics and Resilience 17: Ian Kidd: Everyday Aesthetics, Happiness, and Depression SECTION IV: SOCIAL AESTHETICS AND MENTAL HEALTH 18: Sébastien Arviset: Imaginary World-Making in Adaptation and Therapy 19: Guenda Bernegger: Spatial and Narrative Atmospheres: Social Aesthetic Perspectives 20: Michael Musalek, Oliver Scheibenbogen: Applied Social Aesthetics in Clinical Practice: The Will to Beauty and its Impact on Mental Health 21: Lazare Benaroyo: 'Inquiry on Hospitality, Compassion and <"Antlitz> " by Emmanuel Levinas' 22: Michael Laney, John Z. Sadler: Philosophical Aesthetics in Psychiatric Practice and Education 23: Werdie van Staden: Unleashing Therapeutic Gain by Deploying Social Aesthetic Values in Co-Producing Healthcare Decisions 24: Giovanni Stanghellini, George Ikkos: Images of Care: 'To the Things Themselves!' SECTION V: LITERATURE, STORYTELLING, MOVIES AND MENTAL ILLNESS 25: Dietrich v. Engelhardt: Mental Illness in Literature between Phenomenology and Symbolism 26: Dietrich v. Engelhardt: Bibliotherapy or of the Healing Power of Reading in the Context of Cultural History 27: Katharina Fürholzer, Julia Pröll: An Aesthetics of Relating and its (Therapeutic) Potentials: A Transcultural Perspective on Literature, Storytelling and the Power of the (Spoken) Word 28: Erzsébet Strausz: 'Everyone has a story': Aesthetic Experiences of Storytelling in The Strangers Project 29: Sal Anderson, Dolly Sen: 'Film is Psychosis': Filmmakers with Lived Experience 30: Martin Poltrum: Cinema Therapy - The Film as a Medicine. From the Silent Film Era to the Present Day 31: Martin Poltrum: Connoisseurs of the Soul, Psycho Villains. Psychotherapists, Psychologists and Psychiatrists in Feature Films and Series 32: Martin Poltrum: Mental Disorders in Feature Films - Addiction, Suicide, Delusion, Psychosis and Schizophrenia 33: Alison L. Kahn: Imaging Children's Realities in Films: Visual Anthropological Approaches and Representations of Emotions in Childhood SECTION VI: PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, ART AND CREATIVITY 34: Kathleen Galvin: Well-being through the poet's speaking 35: Shelley Sacks: Social-Aesthetic Strategies for a Change of Heart 35: Tania L. Abramson, Paul R. Abramson: Bodily Aesthetics: Challenging damaging imaginaries of the body - Kathleen Lennon Art & Trauma: An Aesthetic Journey 37: Rachel Starr & Jonathan Smith: The Psychology of Art-Viewing: Insights from Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis 38: Timo Storck, Rainer Holm-Hadulla: Psychoanalysis as an Art of Meeting the Other: Now Moments, Moving along and the possibility of change 39: Julian C. Hughes: The aesthetics of dementia 40: Christina Reading, Jess Moriarty: Supporting a motivated creative practice: workshops to aid creative wellbeing 41: Hilary Moss: Aesthetic experience and aesthetic deprivation in hospitals SECTION VII: AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE IN THE CLINIC. PERSPECTIVES AND REFLECTIONS FROM PRACTICE 42: Alan Cribb, Graham Pullin: Aesthetics for everyday quality: enriching healthcare improvement debates 43: Louise Younie: Developing clinician in-sight into practice through the aesthetic lens 44: Helena Fox: Aesthetic Experience in the Everyday Clinical Work of Healthcare Practitioners: A Practice-Based Description 45: Sue Stuart-Smith: Gardens and Human Flourishing 46: Charlie Blowers: The Moving Pieces Approach: Poetic Space, Embodied Creativity, Polarity, and Performances as Aspects of Aesthetic Experience 47: Femi Oyebode: Aesthetics and the Clinical Encounter. Perfect moment & Privileged Moments 48: Andrew West: An Exploration of the Aesthetic Moment in the Clinical Encounter using Free Musical Improvisation as a Model 49: Jacinta Tan, Carolyn Nahman, Kiran Chitale & Stephen Anderson: Creative arts, aesthetic experience and the therapeutic connection in eating disorders 50: Ariel Dempsey: Theological Aesthetics and Clinical Care