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- Title: Ecopsychology
- Author : Peter H. Kahn, Jr. & Patricia H. Hasbach
- Release Date : January 20, 2012
- Genre: Nature,Books,Science & Nature,Professional & Technical,Engineering,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 3263 KB
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An ecopsychology that integrates our totemic selves—our kinship with a more than human world—with our technological selves.
We need nature for our physical and psychological well-being. Our actions reflect this when we turn to beloved pets for companionship, vacation in spots of natural splendor, or spend hours working in the garden. Yet we are also a technological species and have been since we fashioned tools out of stone. Thus one of this century's central challenges is to embrace our kinship with a more-than-human world—"our totemic self"—and integrate that kinship with our scientific culture and technological selves.
This book takes on that challenge and proposes a reenvisioned ecopsychology. Contributors consider such topics as the innate tendency for people to bond with local place; a meaningful nature language; the epidemiological evidence for the health benefits of nature interaction; the theory and practice of ecotherapy; Gaia theory; ecovillages; the neuroscience of perceiving natural beauty; and sacred geography. Taken together, the essays offer a vision for human flourishing and for a more grounded and realistic environmental psychology.
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