Record Nr.

UNINA9910462786303321

Autore

Fisher Andy <1963->

Titolo

Radical ecopsychology [[electronic resource] ] : psychology in the service of life / / Andy Fisher ; foreword by David Abram

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2013

ISBN

1-4384-4477-X

1-4619-1937-1

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (407 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in radical social and political theory

Disciplina

155.91

Soggetti

Environmental psychology

Nature - Psychological aspects

Environmentalism - Psychological aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Radical Ecopsychology, Second Edition: Psychology in the Service of Life""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword by David Abram""; ""Preface to the Second Edition""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Part I: Groundwork""; ""Chapter 1: The Project of Ecopsychology""; ""The Terrain of Ecopsychology""; ""Getting a Handle on the Project: Four Tasks""; ""A Naturalistic and Experiential Approach""; ""Chapter 2: The Problem With Normal""; ""Discursive Problems""; ""Between the Human and the Natural""; ""In Praise of the Not-So-Normal: The Hermeneutic Dimension""

""The Symbolic or Metaphorical Nature of Reality and the Discursive Primacy of Rhetoric""""Part II: Nature and Experience""; ""Chapter 3: Beginning with Experience""; ""â€œReturning to Experienceâ€?""; ""Talking About Experience""; ""Experiential Destruction and Ecological Crisis""; ""Chapter 4: From Humanistic to Naturalistic Psychology""; ""The Irony of Humanistic Psychology""; ""On Nature and Human Nature""; ""Chapter 5: Naturalistic Psychology: A Sketch""; ""â€œIf We Truly Experience Needs . . .â€?""; ""Naturalism""; ""Life as a Hermeneutic Sense-Making Journey""

""Nature and the Human Life Cycle""""Chapter 6: Making Sense of

Suffering in a Technological World""; ""Technological Progress: The (Paved) Road to Happiness?""; ""Suffering Under Technology""; ""Contesting the Pattern: Counterpractice""; ""On Bearing Pain and Suffering""; ""Part III: Ecopsychology Today""; ""Chapter 7: A Decade Later: Still Radical After all These Years""; ""Looking Back, Looking Forward""; ""Situating Ecopsychology: What about Environmental and Conservation Psychology?""; ""Ecopsychology as a Transformation of Psychology""

""The Ecopsychology Journal and â€œSecond Generationâ€? Ecopsychology""""Ecotherapy: The Question of Praxis""; ""Integral Ecology: Agreements and Disagreements""; ""Challenges Ahead""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""