Overview
- Explores environmental issues through wilderness retreats, naturalist‘s forest walks and organic gardening
- Identifies new foundations for environmental ethics that promote sustainability
- Finds commonalities between Eastern and Western psychological and contemplative traditions
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Phenomenologies of the Earth: Deepening Our Experience of Nature and its Alterity
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Phenomenology, Environment, and Ethics
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The Earth Unseen: Phenomenologies of Invisibility, Apocalypse, Death and the Unhuman
Keywords
- Contemporary environmental discourse
- Deconstructive phenomenology
- Direct experience of nature
- History of ecopsychology
- Lived experience of nature
- Maurice-Merlau Ponty
- Scientific naturalism
- Wilderness experience
- climate change
- conservation psychology
- contemplative psychology
- ecological imagination
- ecological self
- ecological thinking
- ecophenomenology
- ecopsychology
- ecotherapy
- environmental ethics
- environmental psychology
- mindfulness
- personal experience of nature
- phenomenological
- phenomenological psychology
- phenomenology
- psychological self
- terrapsychology
- transcendental phenomenology
About this book
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PsycCRITIQUES
November 10, 2014, Vol. 59, No. 45, Article 2
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Douglas A. Vakoch, Ph.D.
Douglas A. Vakoch is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies as well as Director of Interstellar Message Composition at the SETI Institute. His books cover fields ranging from psychology and ecocriticism to anthropology and space sciences and include Psychology of Space Exploration: Contemporary Research in Historical Perspective (NASA, 2011); On Orbit and Beyond: Psychological Perspectives on Human Spaceflight (Springer, 2012); Ecofeminism and Rhetoric: Critical Perspectives on Sex, Technology, and Discourse (Berghahn, 2011); Feminist Ecocriticism: Environment, Women, and Literature (Lexington, 2012); Altruism in Cross-Cultural Perspective (Springer, 2013); Extraterrestrial Altruism: Evolution and Ethics in the Cosmos (Springer, 2013); and Astrobiology, History, and Society: Life Beyond Earth and the Impact of Discovery (Springer, 2013). Dr. Vakoch serves as general editor for Lexington Books’ Ecocritical Theory and Practice Series and for Springer’s Space and Society Series. He also co-edited, with Fernando Castrillon, a special double issue of the peer-reviewed journal ReVision on ecopsychology. Prior to earning a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, he received an M.A. in history and philosophy of science from the University of Notre Dame, where he focused on contemporary continental philosophy of psychology. He may be reached at dvakoch@ciis.edu, telephone (415) 575-6244, Department of Clinical Psychology, California Institute of Integral Studies, 1453 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA; or at dvakoch@seti.org, telephone (650) 960-4514, Center for SETI Research, SETI Institute, 189 Bernardo Avenue, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
Fernando Castrillon, Psy.D.
Fernando Castrillon, Psy.D., earned a masters in sociology from theUniversity of California where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, and a doctorate in clinical psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) and is a licensed clinical psychologist. He is Associate Professor in the Community Mental Health Department at CIIS and is the founding Director of CIIS’ The Clinic Without Walls, an innovative psychotherapy clinic serving mostly working poor and immigrant communities who would otherwise not have access to mental health services.
Dr. Castrillon is also a candidate psychoanalyst with the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis in Berkeley, California and has served on the editorial boards of the journals Ecopsychology and Universitas Psychologica, among others. His clinical, teaching and research interests include the production of subjectivity (both human and more-than-human) psychoanalysis, community mental health, ecopsychology, radical social theory, schizoanalysis, cosmology, entheogens, violent political movements, war, terrorism and revolution. With Doug Vakoch, he edited a special double issue of the peer-reviewed journal ReVision, entitled “Ecopsychology.” Dr. Castrillon maintains a private psychoanalytic practice in the San Francisco Bay Area. Address: California Institute of Integral Studies, 1453 Mission Street, San Francisco, California, 94103. He may be reached at (510) 295-4711 or view his webpage: www.drcastrillon.com.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ecopsychology, Phenomenology, and the Environment
Book Subtitle: The Experience of Nature
Editors: Douglas A. Vakoch, Fernando Castrillón
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9619-9
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-9618-2Published: 18 February 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-5395-0Published: 27 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-9619-9Published: 17 February 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 265
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: Cognitive Psychology, Community and Environmental Psychology, Psychology Research