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The study and practice of psychology as related to the world’s converging ecological and human crises can be divided into distinct strands:
Environmental Psychology - psychology as applied to understanding what engenders behaviour change towards sustainability and towards mitigation of and adaptation to the impacts of environmental crises (particularly climate change)
Ecopsychology and Ecotherapy - psychology as studied and practised in response to people’s affective reactions to ecological crises (particularly the ‘trauma’ that can result from realisation of the predicted impacts of climate change and peak oil) – and – psychology directed at exploring and addressing human ‘disconnection’ from nature’ and/or experiences in the natural world as part of a therapeutic process.
The former application tends to focus on academic social policy research whilst the latter two applications arise much more in the work of practicing psychologists and psychotherapists.
At present these different strands are muddled together in the links provided below. I will expand this text and better organise these resources soon.
Some Ecopsychology, Ecotherapy & Environmental Psychology links and resources:
About:
Ecopsychology UK – Ecopsychology
Wikipedia – Ecopsychology
Wapedia – Nature Deficit Disorder
Some Organisations:
Centre for Human Ecology – Ecopsychology module
Children & Nature Network – Reconnecting Children with Nature
Conservation Psychology - Network of academic/independent researchers/practitioners
Ecopsychology Institute - Online resource
Ecopsychology UK – Online resource
European Ecopsychology Society
Psychologists for Social Responsibity
International Community for Ecopsychology
Some Books and Journals:
Theodore Roszac – Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind
Theodore Roszac – The Voice of the Earth: An Exploration of Ecopsychology
Linda Buzzell and Craig Chalquist – Ecotherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind
Joseph Dodds (forthcoming) – Psychoanalysis and Ecology at the Edge of Chaos
Peter Kahn – Technological Nature: Adaptation and the Future of Human Life
Richard Louv – Last Child in the Woods
Ecopsychology Journal
European Journal of Ecopsychology
The Great Turning Times – Ecopsychology Newsletter (UK)
Ecotherapy Heals – Ecotherapy Newsletter (USA)
Psychology and the Environment - Newsletter (Australia)
Academic Reports and Teaching Resources:
American Psychological Association – Psychology and Global Climate Change report
Teaching Psychology for Sustainability – A Manual of Resources
MIND Report – Ecotherapy: The Green Agenda for Mental Health
WWF Strategies for Change – Common Cause: The Case for Working with Our Cultural Values
WWF Strategies for Change – Meeting Environmental Challenges: The Role of Human Identity
PsySR – Inspiring Action: The Role of Psychology in Environmental Campaigning and Activism
PsySR – Climate Change, Sustainability & Psychology Toolkit
PsySR/Friends of the Earth - Presentations from2010 Workshops
American Psychologist - Special Issue, May-June 2011 – Psychology and Global Climate Change
Audio/Video
British Academy/British Psychological Society 2010 Annual Lecture – Psychology and Climate Change
All In The Mind – ABC Radio broadcast on climate change and the psyche
All In The Mind – ABC Radio broadcast on psychology, sustainability and behaviour change
All In The Mind – ABC Radio broadcast on ‘nature deficit disorder’
All In The Mind – ABC Radio broadcast on the connections between ecology and psychology
Garrison Institute - Videos of 2011 ‘Climate, Mind and Behaviour’ presentations.
George Marshall video (3 parts) - The Ingenious Ways We Avoid Believing in Climate Change
Jeremy Rifkin - RSA VisionVideos - The Empathetic Civilisation
Michael Killin interviews Dr Carol Tang (video) - The Psychology of Climate Change
Future Primitive – audio interview with psychologist and PTSD therapist Chellis Glendinning
Future Primitive – audio interview with psychologist Dr Craig Chalquist
Some Ecopsychology Pioneers & Practitioners (alphabetical):
Linda Buzzell (USA)
Craig Chalquist (USA)
Thomas Doherty (USA)
Martin Jordan (UK)
David Key (UK)
Richard Louv (USA)
Joanna Macy (USA)
Kathy McMahon (USA)
Rosemary Randall (UK)
Mary-Jayne Rust (UK)
More UK practitioners here and here
More international practioners here
Miscellaneous Related Links:
Roman Krznaric on Empathy
Richard Mabey – Nature Cure
Glenn Albrecht – On Solastalgia and Soliphilia
Monty and Sarah Don – The Jewel Garden: A Story of Despair and Redemption
Sarah Brampton – Digging Towards the Light
Worldchanging – ‘Solastalgia’ and the Mental Affects of Climate Change
Play Again film – http://www.groundproductions.com/playagain/index.php
New York Times - ‘Shrinking’ the Climate Problem
New York Times – When Trying To Preserve the Planet Strains Relationships
Independent – You may be suffering from ‘eco-anxiety’
Guardian – Why our children need to… engage with nature
Boston Globe – How the city hurts your brain
The Independent – Ecopsychology: The force of nature
New York Times – Is There An Ecological Unconscious?
Education.com – Nature Deficit Disorder
Grist – Do Environmentalists Need Shrinks?
Neuroanthropology.net – ‘Solastalgia’, ‘Soliphilia’ and the Ecopsychology of our Changing Environment
