Ecopsychology

Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind

Editor: Theodore Roszak, Mary E. Gomes, Allen D. Kanner
Foreword by: James Hillman, Lester Brown

This pathfinding collection shows how the health of the planet is inextricably linked to the psychological health of humanity, individually and collectively. As such, it is sure to become a definitive work for the burgeoning ecopsychology movement, which is both a new beginning for environmentalism and a revolution in modern psychology. Collected here are writings from the premier psychotherapists, thinkers, and eco-activists working in the field, including:
James Hillman, world-renowned Jungian analyst, relating the "one core issue for all psychology" - the nature and limits of human identity - to the condition of the planet
Chellis Glendinning, author of My Name Is Chellis and I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization, alerting us to "the link between the psychological process of addiction and the technological system"
Carl Anthony, former president of Earth Island Institute, arguing for a "genuinely multicultural self and a global civil society without racism"
Ralph Metzner, president of the Green Earth Foundation and author of Maps of Consciousness, decrying our loss of "respect for the mysterious, and humility in relationship to the infinite complexities of the natural world"
Joanna Macy, writer, therapist, and Buddhist, noting that "we all need to unblock our feelings about our threatened planet" if we are to work through out "environmental despair"

Acknowledgments
Ecopsychology and the Environmental Revolution: An Environmental Foreword
A Psyche the Size of the Earth: A Psychological Foreword
Where Psyche Meets Gaia	p. 1
Nature and Madness	p. 21
Technology, Trauma, and the Wild	p. 41
The Psychopathology of the Human-Nature Relationship	p. 55
Are We Happy Yet?	p. 68
The All-Consuming Self	p. 77
Jungian Psychology and the World Unconscious	p. 92
The Ecopsychology of Child Development	p. 101
The Rape of the Well-Maidens: Feminist Psychology and the Environmental Crisis	p. 111
The Wilderness Effect and Ecopsychology	p. 122
The Ecology of Grief	p. 136
Therapy for a Dying Planet	p. 149
When the Earth Hurts, Who Responds?	p. 156
Shamanic Counseling and Ecopsychology	p. 172
The Way of Wilderness	p. 183
The Skill of Ecological Perception	p. 201
Ecological Groundedness in Gestalt Therapy	p. 216
Restoring Habitats, Communities, and Souls	p. 224
Working Through Environmental Despair	p. 240
Ecopsychology and the Deconstruction of Whiteness	p. 263
The Politics of Species Arrogance	p. 279
The Spirit of the Goddess	p. 288
The Ecology of Magic	p. 301
Keepers of the Earth	p. 316
Suggested Readings	p. 325
The Contributors	p. 335
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ISBN: 9780871564061
ISBN-10: 0871564068
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Dimensions (cm): 22.860 x 15.240  x 2.210
Weight (kg): 0.49
Audience: General