Recommended Reading
Recommended Reading list for Ecopsychology and Earth-Based Healing
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
A masterpiece of poetic passion with intellectual rigor and daring. Abram demonstrates that our most cherished human attributes--from the gift of language, to the awareness of past and future, to the...
Pantheon, 1996
The Soul Unearthed: Celebrating Wildness and Personal Renewal Through Nature
A rich anthology bringing together more than fifty of our planet's most intrepid and eloquent advocates teaching us how we can be refreshed and transformed by what is wild in the Earth and in...
Tarcher, 1996
Mind And Nature: A Necessary Unity
Astonishing wisdom, this work ranges far beyond the facts of Western science to discover the Metapattern that connects every living thing on the planet.
Bantam Books, 1979
Steps to an Ecology of Mind
Examines the nature of the mind, seeing it not as a nebulous something, somehow lodged somewhere in the body of each man, but as a network of interactions relating the individual with his society and...
Ballentine, 1972
The Dream of the Earth
In this classic of "ecotheology," Father Berry's essays shows us a universe dynamically alive: a whole system, fluid and interconnected, an enchanted world that was part of the natural mind for most...
Sierra Club, 1988
Growing Whole: Self-realization on an Endangered Planet
This self-help book supports the search for both personal and global transformation through the powerful tools and perspectives of psychosynthesis. The book and its accompanying...
Psychosynthesis Press, 1998
Ecotherapy: Healing Ourselves/Healing the Earth
This insightful synthesis of ecologically grounded personality theory, therapy, education, and spirituality offers strategies and models for eco- parenting, teaching, healing, counseling, and...
Haworth Press, 1996
Deep Ecology: Living As If Nature Mattered
The book suggests some of the limitations, in our view, of the dominant approach to public policy. To those seeking a more authentic existence and integrity of character, the book offers a theory of...
Gibbs Smith, 1985
Radical Ecopsychology: Psychology in the Service of Life
University of New York Press, Albany, 2002)This book is written on Ecopyschology from a clinical perspective. As a practicing psychotherapist, the author is aware of the stresses and sadnesses that...
State University of New York Press, Albany, 2002
Toward a Transpersonal Ecology: Developing New Foundations for Environmentalism
"Ecology and spirituality are fundamentally connected, because deep ecological awareness, ultimately, is spiritual awareness. The common ground between deep ecology and transpersonal psychology ...is...
SUNY, 1995
My Name is Chellis & I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization
The author explores how we can use the lessons of individual recovery from addiction and the wisdom of native cultures to address our collective need to heal society and the Earth. Drawing on the...
Shambhala, 1993
Children and Nature: Psychological, Sociocultural, and Evolutionary Investigations
The Authors examine the evolutionary significance of nature during childhood; the formation of children's conceptions, values, and sympathies toward the natural world, and the educational and...
MIT press, 2002
Sacred Land, Sacred Sex-Rapture of the Deep: Concerning Deep Ecology and Celebrating Life
Wise woman of the mountain, LaChapelle draws on scholarly work in philosophy, anthropology, psychology, ecology, and history to encourage us to understand and discipline ourselves as technological...
Kivaki, 1988
Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World
A comprehensive presentation of the "work that reconnects" as developed over the last 20 years by Buddhist scholar, ecofeminist, and deep ecologist Joanna Macy and her colleagues.
New Society, 1998
World as Lover, World as Self
This engrossing collection of talks and essays, drawing on Buddhist philosophy, systems thinking, and the author's work in Deep Ecology, teaches us to consider our world and its creatures as...
Parallax, 1991)
Thinking Like A Mountain: Toward a Council of All Beings
This collection of readings, meditations, poems, and workshop notes helps move us beyond the widespread sense of alienation from the living Earth.
New Society, 1988
The Soul Garden: Creating Green Spaces for Inner Growth & Spiritual Renewal
Inspiration, this book offers a vision of peace and harmony that leads us to understand how, when we cultivate the soil, we can also cultivate the soul. Utilizing concepts from historians,...
The Overlook Press, New York, 2002
Ecopsychology
In a comprehensive collection of essays, 24 ecopsychologists explore the psychological basis of our ecological crisis, and the "ecological" basis of common psychological ills, suggesting most of them...
Sierra Club, 1995
The Voice of the Earth
This pioneering book seeks to bridge the centuries old split between the psychological and the ecological, exploring an "ecopsychology" which sees the needs of the planet and the person as a...
Simon/Schuster, 1993
Deep Ecology for the 21st Century: Readings on the Philosophy & Practice of the New Environmentalism
These 39 articles by leaders in the field explore the basic philosophy of Deep Ecology, its roots in the writings of Thoreau, Muir, and Carson, its relationship to social ecology, ecofeminism, and...
Shambhala, 1995
Nature and Madness
A true Elder of ecophilosophy, Paul Shepard believed this book to be his most important. Drawing on a stunning array of disciplines, from biology and psychology to history and theology, he develops a...
University of Georgia Press, 1982
The Practice of the Wild
A most important book from one of the most important teachers/writers of the modern era. This book eloquently brings the wisdom of the wild to teach and to guide and to help us re-inhabit our...
F S & G, 1990
Healing with Nature
When a serious back injury forced psychotherapist Scott to take her sessions outside the confines of her office, she discovered new dimensions in therapy. She and her patients found the struggles of...
Helios Press, 2003
Nature As Teacher And Healer: How to Reawaken Your Connection to Nature
Filled with inspirational stories and practical advice, this will enable even hard-core ubanites to bring nature's magic into their lives, a spiritual first-aid kit for anyone who feels alienated...
Villard Books, New York, 1992
Ecological Identity
Thomashow draws on his solid authority as an environmental educator in this coherent, insightful book. His creative teaching activities provide experiential steps to a contextual/relational way of...
MIT, 1995