Ecotherapy
Subtitle: healing with nature in mind
By: edited by Linda Buzzell and Craig Chalquist ; foreword by David W. Orr.
Contributors: Buzzell, Linda.; Chalquist, Craig, 1963-
Publisher: Sierra Club Books; Distributed by Publishers Group West
Published: 2009
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781578051618
Subjects: Nature -- Psychological aspects; Environmental psychology; Environmentalism -- Psychological aspects; Human ecology -- Philosophy
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Psyche and nature in a circle of healing / Linda Buzzell and Craig Chalquist; title: The greening of psychotherapy; title: Ecotherapy in practice-working from the inside outward; title: Ecotherapy in practice-working from the outside in; title: Community as ecotherapy; title: Ecospirituality and ecotherapy.