By Emma Palmer and Mary-Jayne Rust Abram, D. (1996) The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World. Pantheon Books, New York. Alaimo, S. (2000) Undomesticated Ground: Recasting Nature as Feminist Space. Cornell University Press. Badiner, Hunt, A. (1990) Dharma Gaia: A Harvest of Essays in Buddhism and Ecology. Parallax Press, California. Bateson, G. (2000) Steps to an Ecology of Mind. University of Chicago Press edition. Bernstein, J. (2006) Living in the Borderland: The Evolution of Consciousness and the Challenge of Healing Trauma. Routledge. Berry, T. (2000).The Great Work. Three Rivers Press. Birkeland, I. (2005). Making Place, Making Self. Ashgate Press. Bond, D. Stephenson [...]

By Nick Totton Appropriately enough, ecopsychology has grown like a forest, with few dogmas, rules, and institutions, and with no fence defining what is inside and what is outside. Or in a different metaphor, it resembles a complex river delta with many water courses flowing side by side, branching and braiding until it is impossible to identify which is which. Although the version of ecopsychology associated with Theodore Roszak (1993, 1995) is a crucial component, many enter the forest by other paths: adventure and outdoor therapy and bushcraft, art and art therapy, spirituality, horticulture, permaculture, ecology, environmental activism, and of course counselling and [...]

By Emma Palmer and Mary-Jayne Rust This study guide details authors, journals, and schools and longer training courses in both the UK and overseas. For full details of the author's books, please see the accompanying Reading List. Contemporary authors David Abram David Abram is an American cultural ecologist, geophilosopher, and performance artist. His work has been instrumental in catalyzing the emergence of several new disciplines, including ecopsychology. David is the author of ‘Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology’ (Pantheon, 2010), and ‘The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-Human World’ (Vintage, 1997) and his essays on the cultural causes and [...]

By Tania Dolley, Emma Palmer, Hilary Prentice and Mary-Jayne Rust Ecopsychology explores the relationship between human and other-than and more-than-human life, synthesising and re-uniting ecology and psychology. This brief introduction provides an overview of the many and varied roots of ecopsychology through to its establishment in the UK. Ecopsychological approaches are cross-disciplinary; from systems thinking and transpersonal psychology to environmental philosophy and ethics, amongst others, with much early thinking emerging from the deep ecologymovement. The work of the ecologist, environmentalist, and forester Aldo Leopold reflects the beginnings of ecopsychological thought and practice, for example, in A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There, (Leopold, 1949). Leopold describes the land around his Wisconsin home, advocating [...]