Books, links and other information from our Wild Nature Human Nature course.

Books

Roszak, T., Gomes, M.E., Kanner, A.D., 1995. Ecopsychology: restoring the earth, healing the mind. Sierra Club Books, San Francisco, CA, US

Seed, J., Macy, J., Fleming, P., Naess, A., 1988. Thinking like a mountain: towards a council of all beings. New Society Publishers, London.
The text of this book is now online at: www.rainforestinfo.org.au.

Plotkin, B., 2003. Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche. New World Library, Novato, CA

Grut, J., 2002. The Healing Fields. London: Frances Lincoln.                                        

Foster, S. & Little, M. 1987. The Book of the Vision Quest: Personal Transformation in the Wilderness. Prentice Hall.

Abram, D. 1997. The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World. Random House.

Nicholsen, S. W. The Love of Nature and the End of the World: The Unspoken Dimensions of Environmental Concern. MIT Press.                      

Winter, D.D.N., 1996. Ecological psychology: healing the split between planet and self. HarperCollins College Publishers, New York.

Kidner, D. 2001. Nature and Psyche: Radical Environmentalism and the Politics of Subjectivity. New York Press.

Griffin, S. 1984. Woman and Nature. The Women’s Press.

Bernstein, J. 2006. Living in the Borderland: The Evolution of Consciousness and the Challenge of Healing Trauma. Routledge.
See also  www.borderlanders.com

Sabini, M. (Ed.) 2002. The Earth has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung. North Atlantic Books.

Cashford, J. & Baring, A. 1991. The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image. Penguin.

Meier, C.A., (Ed.) 1983. A Testament to the Wilderness: Ten Essays from The Wilderness Congress. The Lapis Press.

Novels

Naturecure by Richard Mabey
This is a really beautifully written piece of autobiography. It describes this Richard Mabey’s breakdown and recovery through nature and imagination.   

Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
A wonderful novel describing the journey of several women and their different relationships with nature.                                                                                   

Any of Lindsay Clarke’s books...
Chymical Wedding
Parsival and the Stone from Heaven (a wonderful rewriting of the Grail myth, particularly poignant for alternative to the hero myth)
Alice’s Masque

Activities

Coming Back to Life by Joanna Macy and Molly Young Brown.
www.joannamacy.net
Mostly ideas for exercises with some theory.

See John Seed’s website, www.rainforestinfo.org.au go to Deep Ecology and you will find a variety of ideas for processes, books, articles etc.

Ecotherapy. Healing ourselves, Healing the Earth by Howard Clinebell 1996 Fortress Press.
Lots more ideas for processes, together with theory.