CIIS Faculty Publications
Title
Ecotherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind
Files
Description
Ecotherapy, or applied ecopsychology, encompasses a broad range of nature-based methods of psychological healing, grounded in the crucial fact that people are inseparable from the rest of nature and nurtured by healthy interaction with the Earth. Leaders in the field, including Robert Greenway, and Mary Watkins, contribute essays that take into account the latest scientific understandings and the deepest indigenous wisdom. Other key thinkers, from Bill McKibben to Richard Louv to Joanna Macy, explore the links among ecotherapy, spiritual development, and restoring community. As mental-health professionals find themselves challenged to provide hard evidence that their practices actually work, and as costs for traditional modes of psychotherapy rise rapidly out of sight, this book offers practitioners and interested lay readers alike a spectrum of safe, effective alternative approaches backed by a growing body of research.
ISBN
978-1578051618
Publication Date
2009
Publisher
Counterpoint Press
City
Berkeley, California
Keywords
Ecotherapy, Environmentalism, Psychotherapy
Disciplines
Counseling Psychology | Environmental Education | Other Mental and Social Health
Recommended Citation
Chalquist, Craig, "Ecotherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind" (2009). CIIS Faculty Publications. 31.
https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/facultypublications/31