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Title: Sierra Club: Ecopsychology : Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind by Allen D. Kanner ISBN: 0-87156-406-8 Publisher: Sierra Club Books Pub. Date: 30 May, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.38 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A slap in the face for psychoanalysis
Comment: An eminately scientific book. Uses phenomenological and imaginally accurate approaches to its topic, and offers rarely quoted material from psychoanalysis which will provoke irritated responses from those supporting the "accepted canon" of psychoanalytic literature. Little known (though accurate) citations of Freud and Jung broaden the discussion of psychology to include environment, to the chagrin of the traditional psychoanalytic establishment which gives little value to environmental influences on psychological health. Views presented here describe how an empathic relation with the environment is being dumbly, and politically, grandstanded as a regression to "the noble savage". Contrary to this "regressive" view the authors offer a vision in which person and environment are mutually effected. The book will prove its value with its revolutionary conceptual vision, and its practical application of ideas.
Rating: 5
Summary: Inspiration for a thesis
Comment: This is a highly informative book. It tells about people's different points of view on the highly volatile and up-and-coming field of ecopsychology. This book is a great source of information and knowledge of the field as well as it's a pretty easy read. I used this book as a jumping off point for research for my undergraduate thesis. If you are interested in environmental issues and psychology, read this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: still the classic
Comment: Assembled here are some of the leading lights of ecopsychology, with papers and excerpts from the books they've written: Roszak himself, Aizenstat, Hillman, Gomes, Glendinning, and on and on. A rare collection of important voices.
The idea of ecopsychology is to open up awareness to the unheard voice of the Earth. "Animism" is a 19th century assumption that assumes the world lives only to the degree we project into it. The authors here realize that animism is a reductionistic and outdated concept that only serves to justify the ongoing rape and dematerialization of the natural world--a world that in fact projects her presence into those of us who can learn to hear her.
This is not a back-to-nature project but a necessity if we are to preserve what's left of the Earth from our greed, haste, and the global warming of the psyche endemic to a society of rapacious and immature consumers too bent on private advantage to do what our ancestors did for a million years of history and prehistory: recognize and respect her personhood. And today, we can do so with all our critical faculties intact and a bit of help from green technics.
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Title: The Voice of the Earth: An Exploration of Ecopsychology by Theodore Roszak ISBN: 1890482803 Publisher: Phanes Pr Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Green Psychology: Transforming our Relationship to the Earth by Ralph Metzner, Ralph, Ph.D. Metzner ISBN: 0892817984 Publisher: Inner Traditions Intl Ltd Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: My Name Is Chellis by Chellis Glendinning ISBN: 087773996X Publisher: Shambhala Pub. Date: 24 May, 1994 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Reconnecting With Nature: Finding Wellness Through Restoring Your Bond With the Earth by Michael J. Cohen ISBN: 0963970526 Publisher: Ecopress Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Sight and Sensibility : The Ecopsychology of Perception by Laura Sewall, David Abram ISBN: 0874779898 Publisher: J. P. Tarcher Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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