Eco-Anxiety video

Date:   8/31/2008 11:09:28 PM ( 16 y ago)

9:08 PM
August 31, 08


http://thoughtoffering.blogs.com/ice_seeds/


Other Eco psychology links here:

http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1249038


About Eco-Psychology:
article by Theodore Roszak


Awakening The Ecological Unconscious

Ecopsychology: healing our alienation from the rest of Creation

by Theodore Roszak


ECOPYSCHOLOGY: A DISCIPLINE FOR THE 21st CENTURY

Since The Voice of the Earth came out, I have been delightfully surprised to receive a steady influx of letters, papers, and lectures from psychotherapists acquainting me with their concern about this very issue - and with what they have been doing to meet the need.

"Ecopsychology" is the name most often used for this growing body of theory and practice, but others have been suggested: psycho-ecology, nature-based psychotherapy, eco-therapy, shamanic counseling, green therapy, earth-centered therapy, re-earthing. Such neologisms never sound euphonious; nor, for that matter, did "psychoanalysis" in its day. But by whatever name, the orientation is the same. It begins with the assumption that the context for defining sanity in our time has reached planetary magnitude. Ecology needs psychology, psychology needs ecology.

There are a number of fascinating issues ecopsychology has brought into strong, personal focus:
CONSUMPTION HABITS. What are the deep psychological roots of our "materialistic disorders" (as the Cambridge therapist Sarah Conn terms it)?

GENDER STEREOTYPING in our relations with the natural environment. Of special interest here: the compulsive masculinity of western science and technology. Why the need to "conquer" Mother Nature in order to feel secure?

CHILD PSYCHOLOGY and development. Kids are probably born closer to the ecological unconscious than they will ever be again. What goes wrong with them (us)?

DESIGN. What would environmentally intelligent homes, workplaces, cities look and feel like? Why don't we have many such in our world today? How do we manage to put up with the "madness of cities"?

SUPERSTITIONS OF MONEY. "Gold drives the white man crazy," the Indians used to say. Abstract millions continue to do the same in our high-rolling world - and on an ever greater scale. Again: obvious psychosis. But why?

THE PSYCHIC NEED FOR WILDNESS and wilderness. Can we make a case that mental health requires access to authentic wilderness and our untamed fellow species? If so, might that be our best strategy for preserving all the endangered species?



http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC34/Roszak.htm



 

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