Moving Forward with MHapps

Abstract

This book has sought to problematize a purely clinical approach for exploring MHapps and has adopted the use of a vital materialist perspective for studying the sociocultural dimensions of MHapps. In looking at applied examples in the previous chapters, we have outlined some of the alternative ways of studying MHapps and started to explore the complex ways that affect flows through these spaces. In this final chapter, we aim to draw together some practical conclusions and identify the main areas of interest for an applied psychosocial perspective of MHapps. This perspective resists an individual, internal logic that would seek to locate any change from using an app in a discrete set of psychological phenomena. Instead, we have been interested in the capacity for the body to be affected and to affect others. This focuses on the potential (or restrictions) for movement and the ways that bodies feel empowered to move in the context of the available atmospheres and the assemblage of the relations therein.