Applied Ecopsychology

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  1. oxpecker

    oxpecker New Member

    Institute of Global Education offers degrees in Applied Ecopsychology and Integrated Ecology. (I think you should get your first degree as soon as you can explain what Applied Ecopsychology and Integrated Ecology mean.)
     
  2. Dennis Ruhl

    Dennis Ruhl member

    Does ecopsychology concern my observation that people acutely concerned with ecology tend to be crazy.

    The one other group that should be a listed mental illness is vegetarianism. Yes I do prefer eating live animals but it tends to be cruel and messy.
     
  3. Jack Tracey

    Jack Tracey New Member

    Ecopsychology, as a discipline, can be located at the intersection of a number of fields of inquiry including environmental philosophy, psychology and ecology but is not limited by any disciplinary boundaries. At it's core, ecopsychology suggests that there is a synergistic relation between planetary and personal well-being; that the needs of the one are relevant to the other. Persons interested in this area might first read,
    The Voice Of The Earth, by Theodore Roszak, a sophisticated yet readable book on this subject. Then, you can eat your kashi, pack your organically grown lunch, put on your earth shoes and your new hemp suit, and drive your methane powered car to your job as a designer/builder of passive solar energy solutions for other organic farming, earth shoe wearing people on this organic, wholistic planet-being that we call Gaea. There, that ought to be good enough for at least an Associates degree. :D
    Jack
     
  4. Orson

    Orson New Member

    Wow! whole degrees in Ecopsychology! And to think I gave a date a hard time because she mas doing a psych masters that included merely one course in ecopsychology....

    Wouldn't the reading list in this field be more (tendentious) literature than social science?

    --Orson
     
  5. Jack Tracey

    Jack Tracey New Member

    Someone of an especially philosophical nature might point out that most writing is literature, regardless of what it is called by its author. BTW, BIG points for using "tendentious" on the forum. Luckily, my dictionary is always close at hand. ;)
    Jack
     

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