Ecopsychology
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
Related e |
Featured: |
Ecopsychology connects psychology and ecology. Its political and practical goals are to show humans ways of healing alienation and to build a "sane" society and a sustainable culture. Theodore Roszak is credited with coining the term in his 1992 book, The Voice of the Earth. This was a call for the development of a field in which psychology would go out of the built environment to examine why people continue to behave in "crazy" ways that damage the environment, and the environmental movement would find new ways to motivate people to action, ways more positive than protest. Roszak expanded the idea in the 1995 anthology Ecopsychology, which he co-edited with Mary Gomes and Allen Kanner. This book, with articles by each of the editors and many others who would become prominent voices in the field, is still considered by many to be an key primer on ecopsychology. As Roszak mentions, there are a variety of other names used to describe this field: Gaia psychology, psychoecology, ecotherapy, environmental psychology, green psychology, global therapy, green therapy, Earth-centered therapy, reearthing, nature-based psychotherapy, shamanic counselling, and sylvan therapy.
See also
- Gaia psychology
- Green exercise
- Green prescription
- Sustainability
- Environmental psychology
- Transpersonal ecology
- Conservation psychology
- ecophenomenology