Contemporary Capitalism and Mental Health: Rhythms of Everyday Life
By (Author) Conor Heaney
Edinburgh University Press
Edinburgh University Press
12th May 2026
United Kingdom
Non Fiction
Structuralism and Post-structuralism
Social, group or collective psychology
Paperback
328
Width 156mm, Height 234mm
Rather than individualising mental health, Conor Heaney takes seriously the notion of a shared mental environment and the importance of theorising everyday life in our endeavours to grasp and transform our everyday experience. Drawing particularly on the work of Felix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze, Bernard Stiegler and Henri Lefebvre, Heaney develops the idea of rhythmanalysis as an original and interdisciplinary approach to the politics of mental health. He offers both a renewed methodological and philosophical approach to rhythmanalysis (scaping) and deploys it with respect to the relationship between contemporary capitalism and mental health.