Authors: Theodore Roszak, Mary E. Gomes (Editor), Allen D. Kanner
ISBN-13: 9780871564061, ISBN-10: 0871564068
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Sierra Club Books
Date Published: May 1995
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Theodore Roszak was a professor of history at California State University, Hayward, and is the author of many distinguished books, including The Voice of the Earth and Person/Planet. Mary E. Gomes teaches ecopsychology at Sonoma State University. Allen D. Kanner is a Bay Area clinician who teaches ecopsychology at the Wright Institute in Berkeley.
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.
Acknowledgments | ||
Ecopsychology and the Environmental Revolution: An Environmental Foreword | ||
A Psyche the Size of the Earth: A Psychological Foreword | ||
Where Psyche Meets Gaia | 1 | |
Nature and Madness | 21 | |
Technology, Trauma, and the Wild | 41 | |
The Psychopathology of the Human-Nature Relationship | 55 | |
Are We Happy Yet? | 68 | |
The All-Consuming Self | 77 | |
Jungian Psychology and the World Unconscious | 92 | |
The Ecopsychology of Child Development | 101 | |
The Rape of the Well-Maidens: Feminist Psychology and the Environmental Crisis | 111 | |
The Wilderness Effect and Ecopsychology | 122 | |
The Ecology of Grief | 136 | |
Therapy for a Dying Planet | 149 | |
When the Earth Hurts, Who Responds? | 156 | |
Shamanic Counseling and Ecopsychology | 172 | |
The Way of Wilderness | 183 | |
The Skill of Ecological Perception | 201 | |
Ecological Groundedness in Gestalt Therapy | 216 | |
Restoring Habitats, Communities, and Souls | 224 | |
Working Through Environmental Despair | 240 | |
Ecopsychology and the Deconstruction of Whiteness | 263 | |
The Politics of Species Arrogance | 279 | |
The Spirit of the Goddess | 288 | |
The Ecology of Magic | 301 | |
Keepers of the Earth | 316 | |
Suggested Readings | 325 | |
The Contributors | 335 |