Enactivism, a form of cognitive science that has arisen this century, heralds a return to a positive form of homonomy, or sense of belonging, through the recognition that we are relationally-minded with one another, and, indeed, all life. Drawing on the work of philosophers, psychologists, and psychoanalysts, this paper offers an explication of enactivism in humans. Resonating with...
This paper explores intersections of cure, harm, diagnostic practices, and lifeworlds of mental disability within the field of first episode psychosis. Drawing on findings from a collaborative art workshop developed within an ethnographic study of first episode psychosis, we contrast the experience and phenomenology of psychosis within the art workshops with the construction of psychosis in...
One of the important and wide-spread ways in which divinity is manifested in South Asia is through the enactment of religious rituals described in schol- arly studies as inducing ‘possession’ through deities who then speak through the medium of ‘possessed’ devotees. My intention in this paper is to begin to create a shift in scholarly discourse that describes religious rituals that are...