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• W99680042 abstract "In last three or four decades, environmentalists have made us aware of industrial civilization's often harmful impact on natural world. However, these warnings have only rarely led to any really significant, pro-environmental changes that make a difference in how we treat environment. Ecopsychology is a new area of psychological study and practice whose aim is to use established psychological principles to help us understand tendency to destroy environment, and to help us change behavior in ways that allow us to live more responsibly, harmoniously, and sustainably in world. This paper examines some of more prominent ecopsychological perspectives and critiques them from a Christian point of view. A Christian that is in harmony with Christian theology is required. It has become common to attach prefix eco or word to various descriptions of human activities. Thus we have eco-politics, environmental economics, eco-theology, eco-feminism, environmental ethics, and more recently, eco-terrorism. Each of these eco-activities suggests that there are important environmental issues that need to be resolved. In 1900, psychoanalyst Harold Searles noted that non-human environment plays a significant role in human psychological life. He introduced idea that, in understanding human behavior, psychology and ecology are linked in important ways. Theodore Roszak (1992) coined term ecopsychology to describe this linkage. Environmentalist Paul Shepard (1973) suggested that the environmental crisis signifies a crippled state of [human] consciousness as much as it does damaged habitat (p. xvi) and he argued that we may need to start solving environmental crisis by addressing first psychological dimensions of problem. Roszak (1992), a historian who has become a prominent spokesperson in new field of ecopsychology, advanced Shepard's idea by modifying Jungian concept of collective unconscious. He described an unconscious as our inherited sense of loyalty to planet (pp.13-14) and modern, environmentally destructive lifestyles as a repression that weighs heavily upon it. He goes on to argue that believing that we have no ethical obligation to planetary home [is] epidemic psychosis of time (p. 14). In this article, I will first discuss two very different worldviews, one that has created and maintained current environmental crisis and another that seeks to correct destructive way of living in world. An alternative, Christian ecological worldview will be proposed. I will then briefly describe new field of by discussing Fisher's (2002) proposal concerning four tasks of ecopsychology. Some of key contributions of major approaches in psychology to an understanding of and/or a way to bring change to destructive way of living in relation to nature are also provided. I will then offer a Christian critique of Fisher's and of psychology's (especially humanistic psychology's) perspectives. Environmental Worldviews In clinical psychology, before we plan and provide treatment for a client, we must determine if there is a legitimate psychological problem and provide a reasonable assessment of nature and severity of problem. This is no less case with eco-psychology. The client here though is not an individual, couple, family, or therapy group. Rather, it is a whole culture. Although not unanimous, there is now general agreement that we as a Western culture do have an environmental problem, one that is rapidly becoming a global problem, but there is much disagreement concerning etiology, symptoms, and prognosis of problem. It has been argued that environmental activists tend to exaggerate gloom and doom scenarios they present (Lomborg, 2001). Consequently, not all are in agreement that we are facing an environmental holocaust. …" @default.
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• W99680042 title "Ecopsychology: An Introduction and Christian Critique" @default.
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