Radical Ecopsychology
Psychology in the Service of Life
Published on 21. February 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
328 pages
978-0-7914-5304-9 (ISBN)
Description
Personal in its style yet radical in its vision, Radical Ecopsychology offers an original introduction to ecopsychology-an emerging field that ties the human mind to the natural world. In order for ecopsychology to be a force for social change, Andy Fisher insists it must become a more comprehensive and critical undertaking. Drawing masterfully from humanistic psychology, hermeneutics, phenomenology, radical ecology, nature writing, and critical theory, he develops a compelling account of how the human psyche still belongs to nature. This daring and innovative book proposes a psychology that will serve all life, providing a solid base not only for ecopsychological practice, but also for a critical theory of modern society.
Reviews / Votes
"...a provocative look at the philosophical concepts (and conceits) that underlie what truly is a radical new form of social thought." - Utne"Offering the most conceptually robust and complicated analysis of ecological psychology available, Fisher poses a challenge to mainstream psychology. If psychology is to be relevant to a world desperately seeking sustainability-and sanity-the challenge cannot be denied. Psychologists, indeed, all thoughtful people, will find much within to provoke and stimulate altered ways of thinking and feeling." - Robert Romanyshyn, author of The Soul in Grief: Love, Death and Transformation
"Fisher succeeds in synthesizing and integrating a rich, diverse, and extensive amount of material. His emphasis throughout on the experiential-our bodily felt, lived-through experience-brings to light a woefully neglected dimension in the ecology/environmental discourses and debates." - David Michael Levin, Northwestern University
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Language
English
Place of publication
Albany, NY
United States
Target group
College/higher education
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Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Total Illustrations: 0
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
390 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7914-5304-9 (9780791453049)
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Persons
Content
Foreword by David Abram
Preface
Acknowledgments
PART I. GROUNDWORK
1. THE PROJECT OF ECOPSYCHOLOGY
The Terrain of Ecopsychology * Getting a Handle on the Project:Four Tasks * A Naturalistic and Experiential Approach
2. 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
PART II. NATURE AND EXPERIENCE
3. BEGINNING WITH EXPERIENCE
"Returning to Experience" * Talking About Experience * Experiential Destruction and Ecological Crisis
4. FROM HUMANISTIC TO NATURALISTIC PSYCHOLOGY
The Irony of Humanistic Psychology * On Nature and Human Nature
5. NATURALISTIC PSYCHOLOGY: A SKETCH
"If We Truly Experience Needs . . ." * Naturalism * Life as a Hermeneutic Sense-Making Journey * Nature and the Human Life Cycle
6. 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
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Preface
Acknowledgments
PART I. GROUNDWORK
1. THE PROJECT OF ECOPSYCHOLOGY
The Terrain of Ecopsychology * Getting a Handle on the Project:Four Tasks * A Naturalistic and Experiential Approach
2. 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
PART II. NATURE AND EXPERIENCE
3. BEGINNING WITH EXPERIENCE
"Returning to Experience" * Talking About Experience * Experiential Destruction and Ecological Crisis
4. FROM HUMANISTIC TO NATURALISTIC PSYCHOLOGY
The Irony of Humanistic Psychology * On Nature and Human Nature
5. NATURALISTIC PSYCHOLOGY: A SKETCH
"If We Truly Experience Needs . . ." * Naturalism * Life as a Hermeneutic Sense-Making Journey * Nature and the Human Life Cycle
6. 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
Notes
Bibliography
Index