Reading
Intros to Ecopsychology
Text in red are links.
Roszak, T. Gomes, M. & Kanner, A. (Eds)(1995) Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind Sierra Club Books
Greenway, R. Multiple Approaches to Ecopsychology
Seed. John (1994) Ecopsychology; (1988) Beyond Anthropocentrism
John Seed, Joanna Macy, Pat Fleming, Arne Naess (1988) Thinking Like a Mountain: Towards a Council of All Beings New Society. (Text of entire book online)
Buzzell & Chalquist Eds (2009) Ecotherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind Sierra Club Books.
Indigenous Writers
Armstrong, Jeannette (1995) Keepers of the Earth (Final chapter in Roszak et al Ecopsychology anthology, see above)
Deloria, Vine (2009) C.G.Jung and the Sioux Traditions: Dreams, Visions, Nature and the Primitive. Spring Journal Pub.
Prechtel, Martin (2000) Secrets of the Talking Jaguar Tarcher Putnam, US.
Some, Malidoma(1995) Of Water and the Spirit. Ritual, Magic and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman. Penguin/Arkana
Wall Kimmerer, Robin (2013) Braiding Sweetgrass. Milkweed Eds.
Practice
Burns, G. (1998) Nature-Guided Therapy – brief integrative strategies for health and wellbeing. Brunner/Mazel
Jordan, M. (2014) Nature and Therapy: understanding psychotherapy and counselling in outdoor spaces. Routledge. An Excellent handbook.
Linden & Grut (2002) The Healing Fields. London: Frances Lincoln. About the work of a therapist with asylum seekers and refugees on allotments in London, UK.
Macy, Joanna & Young-Brown, Molly Coming Back to Life. Excellent handbook for group process. Joanna Macy’s website
John Seed’s website: go to Deep Ecology for variety of ideas for processes, books, articles etc.
Siddons-Hegingworth, Ian (2011) Environmental Arts Therapies and the Tree of Life. Spirits Rest Books
Rust, M-J. (2020) Towards an Ecopsychotherapy. Confer Books.
Totton, N (2011) Wild Therapy PCCS Books
UKCP journal on Climate Change and Radical Hope: Special Issue The Psychotherapist Issue 63: Summer 2016
Ecopsychology Texts
Abram, David (1997) The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World. Random House.
Berry, Thomas (1999) The Great Work: Our Way into the Future. Random House.
Bradshaw, G. (2010) Elephants on the Edge Yale Univ. Press
Birkeland, Inge (2005) Making Place Making Self. Ashgate Books.
Blackie, S (2016) If Women Rose Rooted September Pubs.
Brody, Hugh (2001) The Other Side of Eden. North Point Press.
Cooper-Marcus, Clare & Barnes, Marni (1998) Healing Gardens; Therapeutic Benefits and Design Recommendations. Wiley and Sons
Du-Nann Winter, D. (1996) Ecological Psychology: Healing the Split between Planet and Self. Harper and Collins. (Now published as: The Psychology of Environmental Problems. D. DuNann Winter & SusanKoger. Erlbaum Assoc. 2004)
Duncan, R. (2018) Mind and Nature. Routledge.
Fisher, Andy (2001) Radical Ecopsychology: Psychology in the Service of Life. State Univ NY Press
Fox, Warwick (1990) Towards a Transpersonal Ecology. Shambala Pub
Glendinning, C (1994) . My name is Chellis and I’m in recovery from western civilization Boston: Shambhala Books.
Griffin, Susan (1984) Woman and Nature The Women’s Press.
Hilson Katzenbach, Mimi Oedipus and Ecopsychology
Johnstone, C. (1994) The Lens of Deep Ecology. Pain for the World, Systems Theory, and finding our Power to Make a Difference. Institute of Deep Ecology, UK
Kidner, David (2001) Nature and Psyche: Radical Environmentalism and the Politics of Subjectivity. New York Press
Louv, Richard (2005) Last child in the woods: saving our children from nature-deficit disorder. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books.
Macy, J. (1991) World as Lover, World as Self Parallax Press
Norberg-Hodge, H. (1992) Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh Sierra Club Books.
Quinn, Daniel (1992) Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit Bantam Books. A highly imaginative book written as a dialogue, gorilla teaching a human about history.
Palmer, E. (2016) Other than Mother: choosing childlessness with life in mind. Earth Books
Prentice, Hilary Cosmic Walk: Awakening the Ecological Self and other articles
Rust, M-J. (2020) Towards an Ecopsychotherapy. Confer Books
Sewell, Laura (1999) Sight and Sensibility: The Ecopsychology of Perception. NY: Penguin Putnam
Sheldrake, R. (1990) The Rebirth of Nature: The Greening of Science and God. Century
Shepard, Paul (1982) Nature and Madness. Univ Georgia Press
Tarnas, Richard (1996) The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas that have shaped western thinking.
Weber Nicholsen, Shierry (2001) The Love of Nature and the End of the World: The Unspoken Dimensions of Environmental Concern. MIT Press.
Jungian thinking & Ecopsychology
Baring, A & Cashford, J (1991) The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image Penguin Breathtaking history of the image of the goddess.
Anne Baring writings
Bernstein, Jerome (2006) Living in the Borderland: The Evolution of Consciousness and the Challenge of Healing Trauma. Routledge
Chalquist, C. (2007) Terrapsychology: Reengaging the soul of place. Spring Journal.
Deloria, Vine (2009) C.G.Jung and the Sioux Traditions: Dreams, Visions, Nature and the Primitive. Spring Journal Pub.
Hillman, J & Ventura, M (1993) We’ve Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy and the World is Getting Worse. Harper.
Kiehl, J.T (2016) Facing Climate Change: An Integrated Path to the Future. Columbia University Press. Videos
Merrit, D. (2012) The Dairy Farmers Guide to the Universe. 4 volumes. Fisher King Press.
Meier, C.A. (1985) A Testament to the Wilderness Ten Essays from The Wilderness Congress in 1983 The Lapis Press
Pinkola Estes, Clarissa (1998) Women Who Run with the Wolves: Contacting the Power of the Wild Woman. Rider
Peters, Roderick (1987) The Eagle and the Serpent Journal of Analytical Psychology; 32, pp 359-381.
Rowland, S. (2012) The Ecocritical Psyche: Literature, Evolutionary Complexity and Jung. Routledge.
Romanyshyn, Robert. The Melting Polar Ice: Revisiting Technology as Symptom and Dream and other articles.
Ryley, Nancy (Ed) (1998) The Forsaken Garden. Four Conversations on the deep meaning of environmental illness. (with Laurens van der Post, Marion Woodman, Ross Woodman, and Thomas Berry) Quest Books, Wheaton Illinois.
Sabini, Meredith (Ed.) (2002) The Earth has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G.Jung. North Atlantic Books.
Tacey, David (2009) The Edge of the Sacred: Jung, Psyche, Earth. Daimon Verlag.
Mary Watkins articles including ‘From Individualism to the Interdependent Self; Changing the Paradigm of the Self in Psychotherapy’. Watkins M Psychological Perspectives 27 p52 – 69, 1992.
West, Rinda (2008) Out of the Shadow: Ecopsychology, Story and Encounters with the Land. Univ Virginia Press
Psyche and Nature Parts 1 and 2 of Spring: A Journal of Archetype and Culture. New Orleans, Louisiana, Fall 2006
Papers
Bednarek, S. (2018) How Wide is the Field? Gestalt Therapy, Capitalism and the Natural World British Gestalt Journal Vol 27 No 2 Pp 8-17
Cushman, P. (1990) Why is the Self Empty? American Psychologist, 40(5) 599-611.
Jordan, Martin (2009) Nature and Self: An Ambivalent Attachment? Ecopsychology Journal Vol 1, No 1. and various other articles
Kidner, D. (1994) Why psychology is mute about the Environmental Crisis. Environmental Ethics. David Kidner Vol16 Winter 1994, p 359 – 376
Totton, N. (2016). Let the Right One In: Talking about Climate Change in Therapy The Psychotherapist, UKCP Magazine. Issue 63 Summer.
Story Telling with the earth in mind
Gersie, A & Schiefflin, E. (2018) Storytelling For a Greener World: Environment, Community and Story-Based learning. Hawthorn Press.
Wilderness Practice/Rites of Passage
Foster, S. and Little, M. (1987) The Book of the Vision Quest: Personal Transformation in the Wilderness. Prentice Hall.
Key, Dave The Ecology of Adventure – Masters Thesis (extensive bibliography)
Plotkin, Bill (2003) Soulcraft: Crossing into the mysteries of Nature and Psyche. New World Library
Plotkin, B (2008) Nature and the Human Soul. New World Library
An Exploration of Wilderness Effects: A Phenomenological Inquiry Scott Taylor (good bibliography)
Journals
European Journal of Ecopsychology
International Community of Ecopsychology journal: Gatherings,
Climate Psychology
Climate Psychology Alliance refs, articles, papers.
Sally Weintrobe range of articles, podcasts
Ro Randall The Id and the Eco – we need to talk about climate change and other articles
Novels/Biography
Therapy on the Titanic: a play performed by the PCSR ecopsychology group in 2000 to an audience of therapists.
Badoe, Y. (2019) Wolf Light Zephyr Books
Bates, Brian (2004) The Way of Wyrd Hay House UK
Clarke, L Chymical Wedding; Parsival and the Stone from Heaven; Alice’s Masque.
Davidson, Robyn (2012) Tracks Bloomsbury Pubs
Kingsolver, Barbara (2000) Prodigal Summer Harper Collins
Mabey, Richard (2008) Naturecure Vintage Pubs. The author describes his breakdown and recovery through nature and imagination.
Metzger, Deena (2017) The Rain of Night Birds Hand to Hand Pubs
Powers, R. (2018) The Overstory Vintage
Starhawk (1994) The Fifth Sacred Thing Bantam Books
Young, R. (2018) The Secret Life of Cows Faber & Faber
Check out UK Ecopsychology Website for links and reading
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