Ecotherapy Healing with Nature in Mind

by Buzzell, Linda; Chalquist, Craig

• ISBN13: 9781578051618
• ISBN10: 1578051614
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-05-12
• Publisher: Counterpoint

Summary

In 1995, Sierra Club Books published Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind, the influential anthology edited by Theodore Roszak, Mary Gomes, and Allen Kanner that brought together psychologists and ecologists to define a new discipline and a new vision of planetary and personal health. Since then, more and more people have come to psychotherapy with concerns and fears about humankind's damaged relationship with the web of life we depend on-and therapists are asking: Where can I find out more about the psyche-world connection? How can I do hands-on work in this area? This new volume is the eagerly awaited response.

Author Biography

Linda Buzzell, founder of the International Association for Ecotherapy, is a psychotherapist and career counselor in private practice. She lives in Santa Barbara, California. Craig Chalquist teaches psychology and related fields at John F. Kennedy University and is the author of two previous books. He lives in Walnut Creek, California.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. 11
Foreword	p. 13
Introduction Psyche and Nature in a Circle of Healing	p. 17
The Greening of Psychotherapy	p. 23
Psychotherapy as if the World Mattered	p. 24
A Psyche as Big as the Earth Theodore Roszak	p. 30
Why and How Do Therapists Become Ecotherapists?	p. 37
Asking Different Questions: Therapy for the Human Animal	p. 46
Resisting the Juggernaut: The Wild Frontier of Ecopsychology	p. 55
Ecopsychology as Radical Praxis	p. 60
Ecotherapy Research and a Psychology of Homecoming	p. 69
Ecotherapy In Practice - Working From The Inside Out	p. 83
Beyond the "Big Lie": How One Therapist Began to Wake Up	p. 84
The Path of Happiness: Integrating Nature into Therapy for Couples and Families	p. 92
Embodying Sentience	p. 104
Opening to the Other	p. 111
Eco-Dreaming: The Whale's Tale	p. 116
The Waking-Up Syndrome	p. 123
Ecotherapy In Practice-Working From The Outside In	p. 131
The Wilderness Experience as Therapy: We've Been Here Before	p. 132
Tailoring Nature Therapy to the Client	p. 140
Horses, Humans, and Healing	p. 149
Transformation through Service: Trans-species Psychology and Its Implications for Ecotherapy	p. 157
Gardens that Heal	p. 166
In Praise of Sweet Darkness	p. 174
Community As Ecotherapy	p. 185
Human Nature, Community, and "Deep Economy"	p. 186
The Small Group as Ecotherapy: Building a Culture of Connection	p. 192
The Psychology of Peak Oil and Climate Change	p. 197
Children and Nature: The Great Disconnect	p. 205
Dreaming a New Paradigm	p. 211
Creating Restorative Ecotherapeutic Practices	p. 219
Ecospirituality And Ecotherapy	p. 237
The Greening of the Self	p. 238
Altars of Extinction	p. 246
A Shamanic Reflection on Water	p. 251
Green Psychology, Shamanism, and Therapeutic Rituals	p. 256
Dream Tending and Tending the World	p. 262
Healing and the Great Work	p. 270
Notes, References, and Resources	p. 277
Bibliography of Ecotherapy Research	p. 296
About the Contributors	p. 306
About the Editors	p. 312
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