Ecotherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind

Description

“Groundbreaking . . . Creating a sustainable future means redefining sanity as
if the human-nature relationship matters―as it profoundly does.” ―Lester R.
Brown, president, Earth Policy Institute In 1995, the anthology Ecopsychology:
Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind brought the worlds of psychology and
ecology together to create a new vision of planetary and personal health. This
book continues the conversation, delving further into the psyche-world
connection and exploring ways to do hands-on work in this area.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 are nurtured by healthy interaction
with the Earth. In this volume, 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. Read more

Features:

Product Details:

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Counterpoint; First Edition (May 12, 2009)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1578051614
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 18
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14 ounces
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.9 x 8.9 inches
• Best Sellers Rank: #544,439 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #492 in Popular Applied Psychology #608 in Medical Clinical Psychology #820 in Ecology (Books)
• #492 in Popular Applied Psychology
• #608 in Medical Clinical Psychology