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Overview
Ecotherapy, or applied ecopsychology, encompasses a broad range of nature–based methods of psychological healing, grounded in the crucial fact that people are inseparable from the rest of nature and nurtured by healthy interaction with the Earth. Leaders in the field, including Robert Greenway, and Mary Watkins, contribute essays that take into account the latest scientific understandings and the deepest indigenous wisdom. Other key thinkers, from Bill McKibben to Richard Louv to Joanna Macy, explore the links among ecotherapy, spiritual development, and restoring community.
As mental–health professionals find themselves challenged to provide hard evidence that their practices actually work, and as costs for traditional modes of psychotherapy rise rapidly out of sight, this book offers practitioners and interested lay readers alike a spectrum of safe, effective alternative approaches backed by a growing body of research.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781578051830 |
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| Publisher: | Catapult |
| Publication date: | 07/01/2010 |
| Sold by: | Penguin Random House Publisher Services |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 256 |
| File size: | 614 KB |
About the Author
Craig Chalquist teaches psychology, ecopsychology, psychotherapy, and thesis research at John F. Kennedy University and at various San Francisco Bay Area campuses. He is the author of two books and numerous journal articles.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments 11
Foreword David W. Orr 13
Introduction Psyche and Nature in a Circle of Healing Linda Buzzell Craig Chalquist 17
1 The Greening Of Psychotherapy 23
Psychotherapy as if the World Mattered Larry Robinson 24
A Psyche as Big as the Earth Theodore Roszak 30
Why and How Do Therapists Become Ecotherapists? Mary-Jayne Rust 37
Asking Different Questions: Therapy for the Human Animal Linda Buzzell 46
Resisting the Juggernaut: The Wild Frontier of Ecopsychology Richard Bruce Anderson 55
Ecopsychology as Radical Praxis Andy Fisher 60
Ecotherapy Research and a Psychology of Homecoming Craig Chalquist 69
2 Ecotherapy In Practice - Working From The Inside Out 83
Beyond the "Big Lie": How One Therapist Began to Wake Up Sara Harris 84
The Path of Happiness: Integrating Nature into Therapy for Couples and Families George W. Burns 92
Embodying Sentience Amanda Leigh Morrison 104
Opening to the Other Lane K. Conn Sarah A. Conn 111
Eco-Dreaming: The Whale's Tale Lauren Z. Schneider 116
The Waking-Up Syndrome Sarah Anne Edwards Linda Buzzell 123
3 Ecotherapy In Practice-Working From The Outside In 131
The Wilderness Experience as Therapy: We've Been Here Before Robert Greenway 132
Tailoring Nature Therapy to the Client John Scull 140
Horses, Humans, and Healing Neda DeMayo 149
Transformation through Service: Trans-species Psychology and Its Implications for Ecotherapy G. A. Bradshaw 157
Gardens that Heal Elizabeth R. Messer Diehl 166
In Praise of Sweet Darkness Shepherd Bliss 174
4 Community As Ecotherapy 185
Human Nature, Community, and "Deep Economy" Bill McKibben 186
The Small Group as Ecotherapy:Building a Culture of Connection Cecile Andrews 192
The Psychology of Peak Oil and Climate Change Richard Heinberg 197
Children and Nature: The Great Disconnect Richard Louv 205
Dreaming a New Paradigm Meredith Sabini 211
Creating Restorative Ecotherapeutic Practices Mary Watkins 219
5 Ecospirituality And Ecotherapy 237
The Greening of the Self Joanna Macy 238
Altars of Extinction Mary Gomes 246
A Shamanic Reflection on Water Malidoma P. Somé 251
Green Psychology, Shamanism, and Therapeutic Rituals Ralph Metzner 256
Dream Tending and Tending the World Stephen Aizenstat 262
Healing and the Great Work K. Lauren de Boer 270
Notes, References, and Resources 277
Bibliography of Ecotherapy Research Craig Chalquist 296
About the Contributors 306
About the Editors 312