The Voice of the Earth: An Exploration of Ecopsychology

by Theodore Roszak

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What is the bond between the human psyche and the living planet that nurtured us, and all of life, into existence? What is the link between our own mental health and the health of the greater biosphere? In this essay, historian and cultural critic Roszak explores the relationships between psychology, ecology, and new scientific insights into systems in nature. Drawing on our understanding of the evolutionary, self-organizing universe, Roszak illuminates our rootedness in the greater web of show more life and explores the relationship between our own sanity and the larger-than-human world. The Voice of the Earth seeks to bridge the centuries-old split between the psychological and the ecological with a paradigm which sees the needs of the planet and the needs of the person as a continuum. The Earth's cry for rescue from the punishing weight of the industrial system we have created is our own cry for a scale and quality of life that will free us to become whole and healthy. This second edition contains a new afterword by the author. --From publisher's description. show less

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Arguably, the leading Author, since its publication, on the relationship of human mind and human behavior with Earth's ecosystems (the natural environment).
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Preface: Ecopsychology – A Reconnaissance
Part One: Psychology
“Please, Sir, May I Have Some More?”. Anna in the Aisles of Plenty; Can the Earth Afford Us?; The Clash of Ideologies; Scare Tactics and Guilt Trips; In-Here/Out-There; The Boundaries of the Ego
Modern Psychology In Search Of Its Soul. Bart Simpson and the Tiger; The Third Outrage; Collusive Madness; Thanatos; Normative Alienation; The Denatured Environment; The Psyche and the Biosphere
Stone Age Psychiatry: A Speculative Reconstruction. Eye of Newt, Toe of Frog; The Sacramental Realm; A Fragment of Historic Truth; The Environmental Context; Ecological Madness; The Sense Sublime; Science and the Sacred
Part Two: Cosmology
Mind in the Cosmos: Agnosticism and show more the Anthropic Principle. The Politics of Godlessness; Matter, Chance, Eternity; Matter Transcends Itself; The Ambiguities of Randomness; The History of Time; One Thousand Monkeys; Cosmic Coincidences and the Fitness of the Environment; The Credulity Index
Anima Mundi: The Search for Gaia. The Many Faces of Mother Earth; The Cosmic Housekeeper; The Alchemical Mistress; The Goddes Goes High Tech; “Mere” Metaphors, “Real” Mechanisms; An Autopoietic Gaian World; Learning from Gaia
Where God Used to Be: Deep Systems and the New Deism. The Whole Is Equal To…?; The Art and Science of Systems; The Higher Reductionism; The Ghost in the Machine; Deep Systems; The Old Deism and the New
The Human Frontier: The Meaning of Omega. The Billions and the Billionths; Time’s New Arrow; The Paradox of Dissipative Creation; Satan’s Anus; Noosphere or Neurosisphere?; Ecological Hierarchy; Imago Mundi; The Microcosm Redrawn
Part Three: Ecology
City Pox and the Patriarchal Ego. Urbanism in Extremis; The Madness of Cities; The Dream of Savage Wisdom; Neolithic Conservatism and the Ethical Unconscious; Deep Systems, Deep Ecology; Paleolithic Conservatism and Feminist Spirituality; The Trouble with Men; Recapturing the Primitive
The Neon Telephone: The Moral Equivalent of Wretched Excess. A Product is a Product is a Product; The Age of Democratic Luxury; Plentitude; Utopian Transformations; Ecology, Ethics, Aestetics; Fools of God
Narcissism Revisited. The Wall; The Great Refusal; Spanking Narcissus; The Empowerment of Innocence; The Eupsychian Vision; Socrates and Freud; The Rights of Self-Knowledge
Toward an Ecological Ego. The Strength of the Ego; The Psychology of the Revolution; The Wisdom of the Id; The Perfect Environment; The Enchanted Child; The Ecological Unconscious
Attending the Planet. The Promethean Interval; Where Shall We Hear the Voice?; The Question of Scale; A Congress of Unauthorized Identities
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> « La répression de l’inconscient écologique est la racine la plus profonde
de la folie collective dans la société industrielle ; en retrouver l’accès
est la voie à la santé mentale. »
Theodore Roszak, The voice of the Earth, New York,
Simon de Schuster, 1992, p.320.

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Theodore Roszak was born in Chicago, Illinois on November 15, 1933. He received a B.A. from UCLA and a Ph.D. in English history from Princeton University. He taught at Stanford University, the University of British Columbia, San Francisco State University, and California State University, Hayward. His only lengthy departure from academia was when show more he served as editor of Peace News in London during 1964 and 1965. His writings and social philosophy have been controversial since the publication of The Making of a Counter Culture in 1968. His other nonfiction works include Where the Wasteland Ends, Person/Planet, The Voice of the Earth, The Cult of Information, and Ecopsychology: Healing the Mind, Restoring the Earth. He also wrote several novels including Flicker, The Devil and Daniel Silverman, and Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein, which won the Tiptree Award. He died of cancer on July 5, 2011 at the age of 77. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Philosophy, General Nonfiction, History
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113Philosophy and PsychologyMetaphysics (existence, purpose, and the nature of reality)Cosmology (Philosophy of nature)
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BD581 .R69Philosophy, Psychology and ReligionSpeculative philosophySpeculative philosophyCosmology
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