THE ECOTHERAPY NEWSLETTER

Healing our relationship with nature…  Ecopsychology in Action …Psychotherapy as if the Whole Earth Mattered

Editor: Linda Buzzell-Saltzman, M.A., M.F.T.
Founder, The International Association for Ecotherapy

"Ecotherapy is the reinvention of psychotherapy as if nature mattered. It takes into account the latest scientific understandings of our universe and the deepest indigenous wisdom. This perspective reveals the critical fact that people are intimately connected with, embedded in and inseparable from the rest of nature, which shifts our understanding of how to heal the human psyche and the currently dysfunctional human-nature relationship. It becomes clear that what happens to nature for good or ill impacts people and vice versa, leading to new methods of individual and community psychotherapeutic diagnosis and treatment." -- Linda Buzzell

"Those with psychological training may play as important a role in our collective adaptation to Peak Oil and Climate Change as energy experts and permaculturists. (They) should perhaps be gearing up to treat not only individuals but whole communities." -- Richard Heinberg, author of The Party's Over and Peak Everything

"Ecopsychology holds the promise of offering original practices for personal, social and ecological renewal." -- Andy Fisher, author of Radical Ecopsychology (2002)

"How does health care change when symptoms are seen as signals from the larger world or signs of disconnection from it?" -- Sarah A. Conn, Ph.D., The Ecopsychology Institute at the Center for Psychological & Social Change; Instructor in Psychology at Harvard Medical School.

"How is it that psychology is the last of the social sciences to acknowledge the environmental crisis?" -- John Seed

"Psychology, so dedicated to awakening human consciousness, needs to wake itself up to one of the most ancient human truths: we cannot be studied or cured apart from the planet." -- James Hillman