Ecopsychology Restoring the Earth/Healing the Mind

by Kanner, Allen D.

• ISBN13: 9780871564061
• ISBN10: 0871564068
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-05-30
• Publisher: Soft Skull Press
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

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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