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Index
Title Page
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
1 - THE GREENING OF PSYCHOTHERAPY
Psychotherapy as if the World Mattered
A Psyche as Big as the Earth
Why and How Do Therapists Become Ecotherapists?
One Therapist’s Story
Listening with the Earth in Mind
Inquiry into the State of the World
Outdoors or Indoors?
An Earth-Connected Self
Asking Different Questions: Therapy for the Human Animal
The Link between Planetary and Human Health
How Ecotherapy Changes the Therapist’s Approach
The Time Diary and Ways to Address Time Stress
We Are What We Eat: Food as the Fundamental Human-Nature Relationship
An Epidemic of Unnatural Loneliness
Eco-Grief and Eco-Anxiety
Natural Lifestyle Ecotherapy
The Future of Ecotherapy
Resisting the Juggernaut: The Wild Frontier of Ecopsychology
Ecopsychology as Radical Praxis
Psychology Needs Ecology, and Ecopsychology Needs Social Theory
Replacing Therapists with Elders
Keeping Our Hearts Open in Hell
Prefigurative Praxes: The Production and Eating of Food
Can Our Practice Measure Up?
Ecotherapy Research and a Psychology of Homecoming
A Brief Overview of Ecotherapy Research
Critical Ecotherapy, Public Health, and Environmental Justice
Toward a Psychology of Homecoming
2 - ECOTHERAPY IN PRACTICE—WORKING FROM THE INSIDE OUT
Beyond the “Big Lie”: How One Therapist Began to Wake Up
The Path of Happiness: Integrating Nature into Therapy for Couples and Families
The Case of Belinda and Malcolm
What Is Nature-Guided Therapy?
Nature-Guided Approaches in Family and Couple Therapy
Creating the Therapeutic Goal
Using the Sensory Awareness Inventory
Natural Resources for Relationships
Embodying Sentience
Fractured Objects
The Body as Keystone
Researching the Connection
Connective Practices
Growing Ecosomatic Connections
Opening to the Other
Eco-Dreaming: The Whale’s Tale
The Waking-Up Syndrome
1. Denial
2. Semiconsciousness
3. Awakening
4. Shock
5. Despair
6. Empowerment
3 - ECOTHERAPY IN PRACTICE—WORKING FROM THE OUTSIDE IN
The Wilderness Experience as Therapy: We’ve Been Here Before
The Wilderness Effect
Leaving Culture Behind
How “External” Wilderness Heals
Healing the World and the Human-Nature Split
Tailoring Nature Therapy to the Client
Assessment
Three Kinds of Clients
Some Guidelines for Nature Therapy
Horses, Humans, and Healing
Transformation through Service: Trans-species Psychology and Its Implications ...
Of Common Mind and Common Rights
Trans-species Psychologists and Psychotherapy
What Trans-species Psychology Teaches Us about Ecotherapy
Gardens that Heal
Roots
Gardens and Healing
A Blossoming Wellness Practice
In Praise of Sweet Darkness
Living on the Land
Kokopelli Farm
In Praise of Sweet Darkness
Healing War Wounds
Leaning and Luscious Berries
4 - COMMUNITY AS ECOTHERAPY
Human Nature, Community, and “Deep Economy”
Hyperindividualism in an Autistic World
Recovery from Hyperindividualism
The Link between Happiness and Local Community
Human Nature and Community
The Psychological and Practical Benefits of Local Community
The Small Group as Ecotherapy: Building a Culture of Connection
Circles as a Source of Change
Neighborhood as a Gathering of Small Groups
The Psychology of Peak Oil and Climate Change
Eco-Grief: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and Joanna Macy
Collective PTSD
Addiction and Dependency: Another Model for Explanation and Treatment
Social Marketing with Boomers as Elders
Staring at Techno-Collapse
The Challenge Ahead
Children and Nature: The Great Disconnect
Dreaming a New Paradigm
Creating Restorative Ecotherapeutic Practices
Medicine Stories for Ecopsychological Healing
The More-Than-Human Home and Family
Collective Trauma and Person-Place Relations
From Separate Selves to Interdependence
Practicing Creative Restoration
5 - ECOSPIRITUALITY AND ECOTHERAPY
The Greening of the Self
Bodhisattvas in Rubber Boats
Cracked Open by Grief
Cybernetics of the Self
Spiritual Breakthroughs
Altars of Extinction
A Shamanic Reflection on Water
Commentary by Craig Chalquist
Green Psychology, Shamanism, and Therapeutic Rituals
Healing and Therapeutic Rituals
Shamanic Rituals of Transition and Initiation
Integrating Shamanic Elements into Psychotherapy
Dream Tending and Tending the World
The Ecological Principles of Dream Tending
The Practice of Dream Tending
Forging a New Relationship with the World’s Soul
Healing and the Great Work
NOTES, REFERENCES, AND RESOURCES
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ECOTHERAPY RESEARCH
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Copyright Page
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