Ecopsychology
(copied from website Sept. 26/06)
by Jennifer Scott (This article was originally presented at an American Dance Therapy Conference in Denver, Colorado, 2003)
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Mary Oliver, "Wild Geese"
In 1992, Theodore Roszak wrote a book called The Voice of the Earth. In it, he laid the groundwork for a new field within psychology called Ecopsychology. Ecopsychology recognizes that the healing of ourselves and the healing of our world are interrelated. It deepens the relationship between the self, nature and the cosmos, recognizing the spiritual dimension of the human-nature relationship.





