Definition attributable to University of California at Hayward (see link on this ODP page)
1. The emerging synthesis of ecology and psychology
2. The skillful application of ecological insight to the practice of psychotherapy
3. The study of our emotional bond with the Earth
4. The search for an environmentally-based standard of mental health
5. Re-defining "sanity" as if the whole world mattered
Reference:
http://isis.csuhayward.edu/ALSS/ECO/index.html
Nature-Connected Psychology Online: Ph.D or M.S. degrees include your prior experiences: inexpensive, accredited. Transferable courses and internships improve careers, global consciousness and human-environmental relationships. http://ecopsych.com/
The threads which join the five authors this site focuses on include their various efforts to create a new perspective on our human experience as a Wholeness. Essays by George Kelly, Ronnie Laing, Gregory Bateson, Ernst von Glasersfeld, and Humberto Matu http://www.oikos.org/psicen.htm
An informal, international, interdisciplinary virtual community devoted to reflecting on the questions which arise from an ecopsychological viewpoint. http://www.ecopsychology.org/
Participants in this 4-day workshop will explore a new paradigm for an ancient art, experience a deep connection to nature's spirits, and evoke the creativity and healing of the shaman. http://www.vantagequest.org/Coyote_Oaks/shaman1.htm
A summary for this book, which offers an original introduction to ecopsychology - an emerging field that ties the human mind to the natural world. http://www.superaje.com/~afisher/
Academic research journal directed toward individuals who have an interest in the study of interrelationships between people and their sociophysical surroundings. http://www.elsevier.com/locate/issn/0272-4944
The Ecopsychology Institute was established at California State University, Hayward in April 1994 to facilitate an international dialogue between two communities: environmental scientists/activists on the one hand, and psychologists/psychotherapists on th http://ecopsychology.athabascau.ca/
