Ecopsychology : restoring the earth, healing the mind / edited by Theodore Roszak, Mary E. Gomes, and Allen D. Kanner ; forewords by Lester R. Brown and James Hillman.

Contributor(s): Roszak, Theodore, 1933- [editor.] | Gomes, Mary E, 1962- [editor.] | Kanner, Allen D, 1952- [editor.] | Brown, Lester Russell, 1934- [author of introduction, etc.] | Hillman, James [author of introduction, etc.].

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BookPublisher: San Francisco : Sierra Club Books, [1995]Copyright date: ©1995Description: xxiii, 338 pages ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780871564061 (paperback).Subject(s): Environmental psychology

| Nature -- Psychological aspects

| Environmentalism -- Psychological aspects

DDC classification: 155.9

Contents:

Ecopyschology and the environmental revolution : an environmental foreword / Lester R. Brown -- A psyche the size of the Earth : a psychological foreword / James Hillman -- Where Psyche meets Gaia / Theodore Roszak -- 1. Theoretical perspectives: Nature and madness / Paul Shepard -- Technology, trauma, and the wild / Chellis Glendinning -- The psychopathology of the human-nature relationship / Ralph Metzner -- Are we happy yet? / Alan Thein Durning -- The all-consuming self / Allen D. Kanner and Mary E. Gomes -- Jungian psychology and the world unconscious / Stephen Aizenstat -- The ecopsychology of child development / Anita Barrows -- The rape of the well-maidens : feminist psychology and the environmental crisis / Mary E. Gomes and Allen D. Kanner -- The wilderness effect and ecopsychology / Robert Greenway -- The ecology of grief / Phyllis Windle -- 2. Ecopsychology in practice: Therapy for a dying planet / Terrance O'Connor -- When the Earth hurts, who responds? / Sarah A. Conn -- Shamanic counseling and ecopsychology / Leslie Gray -- The way of wilderness / Steven Harper -- The skill of ecological perception / Laura Sewall -- Ecological groundedness in gestalt therapy / William Cahalan -- Restoring habitats, communities, and souls / Elan Shapiro -- Working through environmental despair / Joanna Macy -- 3. Cultural diversity and political engagement: Ecopsychology and the deconstruction of whiteness / Carl Anthony -- The politics of species arrogance / John E. Mack -- The spirit of the goddess / Betty Roszak -- The ecology of magic / David Abram -- Keepers of the Earth / Jeannette Armstrong.

Summary: Ecopsychology represents an attempt to find ecology within the context of human psychology and, in turn, to find human psychology in the context of ecology. The feelings of isolation and dysfunction that are so pervasive today have at their root a denial of our essential connection to nature and the non-human world. To heal, we must find our way back home

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Lending	MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending	155.9 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out	20/03/2024	00218736

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This pathfinding collection has become a seminal text for the burgeoning ecopsychology movement, which has brought key new insights to environmentalism and revolutionized modern psychology. Its writers show how the health of the planet is inextricably linked to the psychological health of humanity, individually and collectively.

Contributors to this volume include the premier psychotherapists, thinkers, and eco-activists working in this field. James Hillman, the world-renowned Jungian analyst, identifies as the "one core issue for all psychology" the nature and limits of human identity, and relates this to the condition of the planet. Earth Island Institute head Carl Anthony argues for "a genuinely multicultural self and a global civil society without racism" as fundamental to human and earthly well-being. And Buddhist writer and therapist Joanna Macy speaks of the need to open up our feelings for our threatened planet as an antidote to environmental despair.

"Is it possible," asks co-editor Theodore Roszak, "that the planetary and the personal are pointing the way forward to some new basis for a sustainable economic and emotional life?" Ecopsychology in practice has begun to affirm this, aided by these definitive writings.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [325]-333).

Ecopsychology represents an attempt to find ecology within the context of human psychology and, in turn, to find human psychology in the context of ecology. The feelings of isolation and dysfunction that are so pervasive today have at their root a denial of our essential connection to nature and the non-human world. To heal, we must find our way back home

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CHOICE Review

The insidious psychological impact of Earth's environmental crisis on humankind's collective psyche has prompted ecopsychologists to issue a clarion call in the form of this "psychological impact statement." In this collection of 26 poignant discussions, these practitioners, educators, and analysts discuss the interrelationship between the human psyche and the impact generated by 20th-century economic lifeways on Earth as humankind's habitat. This relationship and its impacts can no longer be viewed as trivial; nor are the consequences any longer solely the province of "wild-eyed" environmental activists. Instead, this collection attests to the common themes of concern shared by ecologists, psychologists and psychiatrists, philosophers, environmentalists, and cultural analysts alike who see firsthand the insidious impact of environmental degradation on the human participants in this relationship. Contributors to this volume include such notables as psychologists James Hillman, Stephen Aizenstat, Anita Barrows, Chellis Glendenning, and Allen Kanner, who are joined by ecologists and environmentalists David Abram, Alan Durning, Steven Harper, and Paul Shephard. Their contributions are amplified by cultural analysts like Ralph Metzner and Leslie Gray. Upper-division undergraduates through practitioners. M. Evans; SUNY Empire State College

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Theodore Roszak , an American historian and social critic, coined the term counterculture in his seminal book The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition . Roszak, who studied history at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Princeton University, was a longtime professor of history at California State University, East Bay.