Radical Ecopsychology Psychology in the Service of Life

Name: Radical Ecopsychology Psychology in the Service of Life
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ISBN: 9781438444765

ISBN-10: 1438444761

ISBN-13: 9781438444765

Edition: 2nd 2012 (Revised)

Authors: Andy Fisher, David Abram

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Description:

Expanded new edition of a classic examination of the psychological roots of our ecological crisis.

Book details

List price: $37.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 1/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 407
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Andy Fisher is a psychotherapist in private practice.



Foreword



Preface to the Second Edition


Preface


Acknowledgments



Groundwork



The Project of Ecopsychology


The Terrain of Ecopsychology


Getting a Handle on the Project: Four Tasks


A Naturalistic and Experiential Approach



The Problem with Normal


Discursive Problems


Between the Human and the Natural


In Praise of the Not-So-Normal: The Hermeneutic Dimension


The Symbolic or Metaphorical Nature of Reality and the Discursive Primacy of Rhetoric



Nature and Experience



Beginning with Experience


"Returning to Experience"


Talking About Experience


Experiential Destruction and Ecological Crisis



From Humanistic to Naturalistic Psychology


The Irony of Humanistic Psychology


On Nature and Human Nature



Naturalistic Psychology: A Sketch


"If We Truly Experience Needs…"


Naturalism


Life as a Hermeneutic Sense-Making Journey


Nature and the Human


Life Cycle



Making Sense of Suffering in a Technological World


Technological Progress: The (Paved) Road to Happiness?


Suffering Under Technology


Contesting the Pattern: Counterpractice


On Bearing Pain and Suffering



Ecopsychology Today



A Decade Later: Still Radical After All These Years


Looking Back, Looking Forward


Situating Ecopsychology: What About Environmental and Conservation Psychology?


Ecopsychology as a Transformation of Psychology


The Ecopsychology Journal and "Second Generation" Ecopsychology


Ecotherapy: The Question of Praxis


Integral Ecology: Agreements and Disagreements


Challenges Ahead


Notes


Bibliography


Index