What is ecopsychology?
eco-psy-chol-o-gy
1. The emerging synthesis of ecology and psychology
2. The skillful application of ecological insight to the practice of psychotherapy
3. The study of our emotional bond with the Earth
4. The search for an environmentally-based standard of mental health
5. Re-defining “sanity” as if the whole world mattered
(from “Ecopsychology On-Line. No. 1 Sept 1996)
For a more visual exploration, check out my Pinterest page entitled “Ecopsychology” @
TED Talks that inspire biophilia
(the idea that there is an instinctive bond and attraction between human beings and other living systems)
Biomimicry in Action by Janine Benyus
On Saving Life on Earth by E.O. Wilson
The Story of Life in Photographs by Frans Lanting
Visualizing the Wonder of a Living Cell by David Bolinsky
On How Bacteria Communicate by Bonnie Bassler
The Intelligence of Crows by Joshua Klein
The World’s Oldest Living Things by Rachel Sussman
The Giant Trees by Richard Preston
ECOPSYCHOLOGY RESOURCES & LINKS
Radio Clip with Laurie Pie about ecopsychology and eco-suicide:
http://blogsofbainbridge.typepad.com/ecotalkblog/files/Segment_4_Airdate_4-30-07.mp3
Online Journals:
Ecopsychology Online: http://ecopsychology.athabascau.ca/
Ecopsychology: http://online.liebertpub.com/toc/eco/3/2
Websites:
International Community for Ecopsychology @ http://www.ecopsychology.org/links.html
Wilderdom: A project in natural living and transformation @ http://www.wilderdom.com/
Ecotherapy @ http://www.ecotherapyheals.com/
The Center for Ecopsychology @ http://centerforecopsychology.org/
Project Nature Connect offers a few free mini online courses:
* “Natural Attractions” @ http://www.ecopsych.com/giftecopsych.html
* “Invitational Applied Ecopsychology Discovery Course…Introduction” @ http://www.rockisland.com/~process/3explorecourse.html
Articles:
Is there an ecological unconscious? by Daniel B. Smith @ http://www.liebertpub.com/Mcontent/files/nytimes_013110.pdf
A Way Home: Ecopsychology and the Renewal of Ourselves and Our World by Emily Farrell, MA LMHC @ http://www.naturalchoice.net/blogs/Blog1212_What_Is_Ecopsychology_Benefits.html
Eco-Therapy’ for Environmental Depression By Bryan Walsh Tuesday, July 28, 2009 @ http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1912687,00.html
Is Going Green Making You Crazy? It’s Time for Eco-Therapy Written By Julie Kirtz GarrettPublished April 17, 2008 FoxNews.com @ http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,351353,00.html
Ecopsychology: Whole Earth Mental HealthEcopsychology offers treatments for mental illness that bridge the gap between people and nature. by Katherine Rowland @ http://www.utne.com/mind-body/ecopsychology-zm0z13jfzros.aspx
Read more: http://www.utne.com/mind-body/ecopsychology-zm0z13jfzros.aspx#ixzz2HVcWzhRO
BOOKS:1995-1996
* Recommended ** Highly Recommended
Cass Adams, ed., The Soul Unearthed:Celebrating Wildness and Personal Renewal Through Nature,New York, Putnam Books, 1996.
*Howard Clinebell, Ecotherapy: Healing Ourselves, Healing the Earth, A Guide to Ecologically Grounded Personality Theory, New York, The Haworth Press, 1996.
** David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World, New York, Pantheon Books, 1996
Winifred Gallagher, The Power of Place: How Our Surroundings Shape Our Thoughts, Emotions, and Actions, New York, Poseidon Press, 1995.
** Chellis Glendinning, “My Name is Chellis & I’m in Recovery from Western Civilization,” Boston, Shambhala Books, 1995.
** Theodore Roszak, Mary Gomes, and Allen Kanner, eds., Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind, San Francisco, Sierra Club Books, 1995.
** Mitchell Thomashow, Ecological Identity, Cambridge, MIT Press, 1995.
** Deborah DuNann Winter, Ecological Psychology, San Francisco, harpercollins, 1995.
BOOKS:1990-1994
* Allan Hunt Badiner, Dharma Gaia: A Harvest of Essays in Buddhism and Ecology, Berkeley, Parallax Press, 1990.
* Marilyn Barrett, Creating Eden: The Garden as a Healing Space, San Francisco, harpersanfrancisco, 1992.
Robert Bullard, Confronting Environmental Racism, Boston, South End Press, 1993.
Irene Diamond, Fertile Ground: Women, Earth and the Limits of Control, Boston, Beacon Press, 1994.
Irene Diamond and Gloria Orenstein, eds., Reweaving the World: The Emergence of Ecofeminism, San Francisco, Sierra Club Books, 1990.
* Alan Durning, How Much Is Enough? (The World Watch Environmental Alert Series) New York, W. W. Norton, 1992.
* Warwick Fox, Toward a Transpersonal Ecology: Developing New Foundations for Environmentalism, Boston, Shambhala, 1990.
* Valerie Harms, ed., The National Audubon Society Almanac of the Environment: The Ecology of Everyday Life, New York, G. P. Putnam”s Sons, 1994.
** James Hillman, The Thought of the Heart and the Soul of the World, Dallas, Spring Publications, 1992.
* James Hillman and Michael Ventura, We”ve Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy, and the World’s Getting Worse, San Francisco, Harper, 1993.
Albert LaChance, Greenspirit: Twelve Steps in Ecological Spirituality, Foreward by Thomas Berry, Rockport, Element, 1991.
* Joanna Macy, World as Lover, World as Self, Berkeley, Parallax Press, 1991.
** Gary Paul Nabhan and Stephen Trimble, The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places, Boston, Beacon Press, 1994.
Richard Nilson, ed., Helping Nature Heal, Berkeley, Whole Earth/Ten Speed, 1991.
Michael Perlman, The Power of Trees: The Reforesting of the Soul, Dallas, Spring Publications, 1994.
** Theodore Roszak, The Voice of the Earth: An Exploration of Ecopsychology, New York, Touchstone Books, 1993.
* Andrew Samuels, The Political Psyche, London and New York, Routledge, 1993.
Gretchen Sliker, Multiple Mind: Healing the Split in Psyche and World, Boston, Shambhala, 1992.
** E. O. Wilson and Stephen R. Kellert, eds., The Biophilia Hypothesis, Island Press/Shearwater Books, 1993.
BOOKS BEFORE 1990
Hans Peter Duerr, Dreamtime: Concerning the Boundary between Wilderness and Civilization, translated by Felicitas Goodman, New York, Basil Blackwell, 1985.
Carl Meier, A Testament to the Wilderness, Santa Monica, The Lapis Press, 1985.
Robert Romanyshyn, Technology as Symptom and Dream, New York, Routledge, 1989.
* Wendell Berry, The Hidden Wound. San Francisco, North Point Press, 1989.
* Murray Bookchin, The Ecology Of Freedom, Palo Alto, Cheshire Books, 1982.
Michael J. Cohen, Prejudice Against Nature: A Guidebook for the Liberation of Self and Planet, Freeport, Cobblesmith, 1984.
* Harold Searles, The Nonhuman Environment in Normal Development and in Schizophrenia, New York, International Universities Press, 1960.
** Paul Shepard, Nature and Madness, San Francisco, Sierra Club Books, 1982.
* Susan Griffin, Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her, New York, Harper Colophon, 1978.
* Jean Liedloff, The Continuum Concept, Reading, Addison-Wesley, 1975.
** Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, New York, Harper & Row, 1980.
Judith Plant, ed. Healing the Wounds: The Promise of Ecofeminism, Philadelphia, New Society, 1989.
Vandana Shiva, Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development, London, Zed Books, 1988.
** Theodore Roszak, Person/Planet: The Creative Disintegration of Industrial Society, Garden City, N.Y. Doubleday, 1979.
* Theodore Roszak, Where The Wasteland Ends: Politics and Transcendence in Postindustrial Society, New York, Doubleday, 1972.
John Seed, Joanna Macy, Patricia Fleming, Arne Naess, eds. Thinking Like a Mountain: Towards a Council of All Beings, Philadelphia, New Society, 1988.
Taylor Stoehr, ed. Nature Heals: The Psychological Essays of Paul Goodman, . New York, Dutton, 1977.
E. Fuller Torrey, Witchdoctors and Psychiatrists: The Common Roots of Psychotherapy and Its Future, . New York: Harper & Row, 1986.
VIDEO
** Ecopsychology: Interviews with Theodore Roszak, Sarah Conn, and Carl Anthony. Order from Foundation for Global Community, 222 High Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301, Fax: (415) 328-7785. (See special offer at top of this section)
** Ecopsychology, three half-hour interviews with Theodore Roszak, produced by Jeffrey Mishlove. Order from Thinking Allowed, 2560 9th Street, Suite 123, Berkeley, CA 94710.
Thomas Berry and Theodore Roszak Discuss Ecopsychology, a video cassette produced in 1994 at the London Ontario (Canada) Regional Art Museum. Order from Contact Corporate & Broadcast Production, 189 Adelaide St. S., London, Ontario, N5Z 3K7. Fax: (519) 668-2229.
Heroes of Earth, prime-time television documentary introducing the life and work of the 1994 Goldman Foundation Environmental Award winners, narrated by Danny Glover. Available from GGP, Inc., 400 Tamal Plaza, Corte Madera, CA, 94925. Fax: (415) 924-0264.
The Mountain Waits, an award-winning Canadian Broadcasting Company documentary presenting a psychologically-oriented mountaineering seminar by Layne Longfellow. Order from Lecture Theatre, Box 4317, Prescott, AZ 86302 (800) 824-4563.
AUDIO
A Symposium on Mental Health and the Environment, recorded at the 1994 annual conference of the American Psychiatric Association. Hosted by Dr. Ante Lundberg and featuring Dr. Bernard Weiss, Dr. Richard Restak, Dr. Herbert Needleman, and Professor Robert Lifton. Order tapes nos. 94APA-S96A, 94APA-S96B from Mobiltape Company Inc. Phone: (800) 369-5718.
Molly Young Brown, Growing Whole: Exploring the Wilderness Within, Hazelden Educational Materials, 15251 Pleasant Valley Road, Box 176, Center City, MN 55012.
** James Hillman, Going Bugs: Toxic Obsessions and Pesticidal Ego, A Jungian Interpretation, Spring Audio Cassettes, Box 365, Gracie Station, New York, NY 10028.
Robert Romanyshyn, Eros, Angels, and the Colors of Nature, Pacifica Graduate Institute Library, 249 Lambert Road, Carpinteria, CA, 93013.
ARTICLES, PERIODICALS, AND PAMPHLETS
Timothy Aeppel, “Ecotherapists Explore the Green Side of Feeling Blue,” The Wall Street Journal, August 14, 1995.
* Centerpiece, published by the Center for Psychology and Social Change, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School at the Cambridge Hospital, carries ongoing coverage of ecopsychology. Order from 1493 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, Fax: (617) 497-0122.
Michael J. Cohen, “Counseling and Nature: A Greening of Psychotherapy,” The Interpsych Newsletter, March, 1995.
Sarah Conn, “Protest and Thrive: The Relationship between Personal Responsibility and Global Empowerment,” New England Journal of Public Policy 6, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 1990), 163-77.
Sarah Conn, “The Self-world Connection: Implications for Mental Health and Psychotherapy,” Woman of Power 20 (Spring 1991), 71-77.
The Counseling Psychologist, 21:4, October 1993, special issue on “Ecocounseling Psychology,” with a principal paper by Professor George Howard, Notre Dame University Psychology Department.
Linda Fillipi, “Place, Feminism, and Healing: An Ecology of Pastoral Counseling,” Journal of Pastoral Care (Fall 1991), 231-42.
** The Gestalt Journal, Spring 1995, special issue on ecopsychology with articles by John Swanson, John Wymore, William Cahalan, and Theodore Roszak. Order from Box 990, Highland, NY 12528 Fax: (914) 691-6530.
Stephen Kellert, “Social and Psychological Dimensions of an Environmental Ethic,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Outdoor Ethics, Lake Ozark, MS, Izaak Walton League of America, 1987.
* Ralph Metzner, “The Split between Spirit and Nature in European Consciousness,” The Trumpeter, (vol. 10, no. 1, Winter 1993).
Theodore Roszak, “The Nature of Sanity,” Psychology Today, Jan-Feb. 1996.
* Theodore Roszak, “Beyond the Reality Principle,” Sierra, March/April, 1992.
* Elan Shapiro, Boundaries That Connect: Softening and Inter-relatedness in the Theory and Practice of an Emerging Ecopsychology, 1989. Available from Elan Shapiro & Associates, 2135 Roosevelt Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94703.
Mary Watkins, “From Individualism to the Interdependent Self: Changing the Paradigm of the Self in Psychotherapy,” Psychological Perspectives, 27 (1992), 52-69.
PAMPHLETS
William Cahalan, The Earth Is Our Real Body: Cultivating Ecological Groundedness in Gestalt Therapy, 1992. Available from the author: 603 Enright Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45205.
Alan Thein Durning, Ecological Wakes: The Story of Six Everyday Objects, 1993, Northwest Environment Watch, 1601 Second Avenue, Suite 903, Seattle, WA, 98101. Fax: (206) 441-0494.
“How Psychology Can Help Save the Planet: A Research Agenda on Environmental Problems,” 1994, Task Force on Psychology and Environmental Problems. Order from George Cvetkovich, Department of Psychology, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225.
The World Watch Library Current issues in this series of eco- psychological relevance include “Gender Bias: Roadblock to Sustainable Development,” “Discarding the Throwaway Society,” and “Indigenous Peoples and the Health of the Earth.” For the full list, contact World Watch Institute, 1776 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Also recommended: the annual World Watch State of the World, “a checkup of our global environment,” and Vital Signs 1994: The Trends that are Shaping Our Future.
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