Wilderness and Ecopsychology: From Anthropocentrism to Ecological Awareness [Hardcover]

A?radical interdisciplinary exploration of human-wilderness relationships during our current climate crisis, drawing on psychoanalytic insight, political critique, and ecological wisdom, this volume diagnoses the profound alienation endemic to late capitalist modernity while delineating pathways toward regenerative forms of being.

Wilderness and Ecopsychology is a beautiful and insightful work: personal yet scholarly, urgent yet expansive. Its authors engage in what they call a wild conversation amongst themselves in which the natural world, too, is an active interlocutor, and which the reader is encouraged to join. As the talk ranges freely from ecology to psychoanalysis, pedagogy to politics, art and literature to philosophy, and much else besides, it enacts its main argument: that we need to open up in mind and body to a dynamic, unpredictable and desirous interweaving with nature. For that way lies true wellbeing for us and the world.

Dr Simon Richard Wilson, Senior Lecturer in Theology/Religion, Philosophy and Ethics, Christ Church University?

Drawing from multi- and interdisciplinary perspectives, e.g., psychoanalysis, phenomenology and political ecology, the authors take an important critical position on the issues of both planetary and human psychological health. They argue that the characteristics of modern, socio-political living create an alienation of humans from the world which sustains them. To counteract the illusion of separateness (for thats what it is) requires conditions for genuine encounters with the other, not just welcoming the familiar, but letting the world enter into oneself and being changed by it. This volume has a vital and urgent message: in order to effect difference, we must find a way of being different and that will entail rediscovery of our human wildness. ?

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