I am pleased to announce that Linda Buzzell's new book Ecotherapy: Healing With Nature In Mind is now available. We encourage everyone to try to buy it from our local bookstore Chaucer's in SBarbara [Novel Experience in SLO... and other local bookstores in the state...], but it is also available at www.Amazon.com and directly from Sierra Club Books at the following link. https://secure2.convio.net/sierra/site/Ecommerce?store_id=1621&PAGENUM=2.
Ecotherapy
Healing with Nature In Mind
Edited by Linda Buzzell and Craig Chalquist
Foreword by David W. Orr
Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-57805-161-8
312 pages
In 1995, Sierra Club Books published Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind, the influential anthology edited by Theodore Roszak, Mary Gomes, and Allen Kanner that brought together psychologists and ecologists to define a new discipline and a new vision of planetary and personal health. Since then, more the more people have come to psychotherapy with concerns and fears about humankind’s damaged relationship with the web of life we depend on—and therapists are asking: Where can I find out more about the psycheworld connection? How can I do hands-on work in this area? This new volume=2 0is the eagerly awaited response.
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 Theodore Roszak, 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 between 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.
Linda Buzzell, founder of the International Association for Ecotherapy, is a psychotherapist and career counselor in private practice; she lives in Santa Barbara, California. Craig Chalquist teaches psychology and related fields at John F. Kennedy University and is the author of two previous books; he lives in Walnut Creek, California.