Ecotherapy : healing with nature in mind / edited by Linda Buzzell and Craig Chalquist ; foreword by David W. Orr.

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In the 14 years since Sierra Club Books published Theodore Roszak, Mary E. Gomes, and Allen D. Kanner's groundbreaking anthology, Ecopsychology- Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind , the editors of this new volume have often been asked- Where can I find out more about the psyche-world connection? How can I do hands-on work in this area? Ecotherapy was compiled to answer these and other urgent questions.



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.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Acknowledgments (p. 11)
• Foreword (p. 13)
• Introduction Psyche and Nature in a Circle of Healing (p. 17)
• 1 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)
• 2 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)
• 3 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)
• 4 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)
• 5 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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