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Radical Ecopsychology: Psychology in the Service of Life

Andy Fisher

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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • Publish Date: Feb 22nd, 2002
  • Pages: 328
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00in - 1.18lb
  • EAN: 9780791453032
  • Categories: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)Mental Health

About the Author

Andy Fisher is a psychotherapist in private practice.

Praise for this book

"...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