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Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind
Published in Paperback by Sierra Club Books (May, 1995)
Authors: Theodore Roszak, Mary E. Gomes, Allen D. Kanner, James Hillman, and Lester O. Brown
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A slap in the face for psychoanalysis
An eminately scientific book. Uses phenomenological and imaginally accurate approaches to its topic, and offers rarely quoted material from psychoanalysis which will provoke irritated responses from those supporting the "accepted canon" of psychoanalytic literature. Little known (though accurate) citations of Freud and Jung broaden the discussion of psychology to include environment, to the chagrin of the traditional psychoanalytic establishment which gives little value to environmental influences on psychological health. Views presented here describe how an empathic relation with the environment is being dumbly, and politically, grandstanded as a regression to "the noble savage". Contrary to this "regressive" view the authors offer a vision in which person and environment are mutually effected. The book will prove its value with its revolutionary conceptual vision, and its practical application of ideas.

Inspiration for a thesis
This is a highly informative book. It tells about people's different points of view on the highly volatile and up-and-coming field of ecopsychology. This book is a great source of information and knowledge of the field as well as it's a pretty easy read. I used this book as a jumping off point for research for my undergraduate thesis. If you are interested in environmental issues and psychology, read this book.

still the classic
Assembled here are some of the leading lights of ecopsychology, with papers and excerpts from the books they've written: Roszak himself, Aizenstat, Hillman, Gomes, Glendinning, and on and on. A rare collection of important voices.

The idea of ecopsychology is to open up awareness to the unheard voice of the Earth. "Animism" is a 19th century assumption that assumes the world lives only to the degree we project into it. The authors here realize that animism is a reductionistic and outdated concept that only serves to justify the ongoing rape and dematerialization of the natural world--a world that in fact projects her presence into those of us who can learn to hear her.

This is not a back-to-nature project but a necessity if we are to preserve what's left of the Earth from our greed, haste, and the global warming of the psyche endemic to a society of rapacious and immature consumers too bent on private advantage to do what our ancestors did for a million years of history and prehistory: recognize and respect her personhood. And today, we can do so with all our critical faculties intact and a bit of help from green technics.


The Moroccan
Published in Paperback by powerHouse Books (September, 1994)
Authors: James Brown, Paul Bowles, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs
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Retina: Color Atlas and Synopsis of Clinical Ophthalmology (Wills Eye Series)
Published in Paperback by McGraw-Hill Professional (09 January, 2003)
Authors: Allen Ho, Gary Brown, J. Arch McNamara, Carl D. Regillo, James F. Vander, Franco M. Recchia, and Christopher J. Rapuano
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