Radical ecopsychology : psychology in the service of life / Andy Fisher ; foreword by David Abram.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Part I Groundwork -- 1 The Project of Ecopsychology 3 -- The Terrain of Ecopsychology -- Getting a Handle on the Project: Four Tasks -- A Naturalistic and Experiential Approach -- 2 The Problem with Normal 29 -- 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 -- 3 Beginning with Experience 51 -- "Returning to Experience" -- Talking About Experience -- Experiential Destruction and Ecological Crisis -- 4 From Humanistic to Naturalistic Psychology 91 -- The Irony of Humanistic Psychology -- On Nature and Human Nature -- 5 Naturalistic Psychology: A Sketch 117 -- "If We Truly Experience Needs ..." -- Naturalism -- Life as a Hermeneutic Sense-Making Journey -- Nature and the Human -- Life Cycle -- 6 Making Sense of Suffering in a Technological World 155 -- Technological Progress: The (Paved) Road to Happiness? -- Suffering Under Technology -- Contesting the Pattern: Counterpractice -- On Bearing Pain and Suffering -- Part III Ecopsychology Today -- 7 A Decade Later: Still Radical After All These Years 197 -- Looking Back, Looking Forward -- Situating Ecopsychology: What About Environmental and Conservation Psychology? -- Ecopsychology as a Transformation of Psychology -- The Ecopsychology Journal and "Second Generation" Ecopsychology -- Ecotherapy: The Question of Praxis -- Integral Ecology: Agreements and Disagreements -- Challenges Ahead.

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