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Posted on 02/16/2008 1:24:57 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Anxious About Earth’s Troubles? There’s Treatment By GABRIELLE GLASER
For people who feel an acute unease about the future of the planet, a small but growing number of psychotherapists now offer a treatment designed to reduce worries as well as carbon footprints: ecopsychology.
Like traditional therapy, ecopsychology examines personal interactions and family systems, while also encouraging patients to develop a relationship to nature.
“Global warming has added an extra layer of anxiety to what people are already feeling,” said Sandy Shulmire of Portland, Ore., a psychologist and practitioner of ecopsychology.
Therapists like Dr. Shulmire use several techniques, like encouraging patients besieged by multitasking to spend more time outdoors and exploring how their upbringing and family background influence their approach to the natural world.
The word “ecopsychology” was popularized in the early 1990s by, among others, the social critic Theodore Roszak, who wrote two books that explored the link between mental health and ecological health. Its practice now takes a variety of forms.
Some therapists offer strategies for eco-anxiety in private sessions, or lead discussion groups for the conservation-minded. More than 120 therapists from Alaska to Uruguay are listed as practitioners at the International Community for Ecopsychology Web site (ecopsychology.org), and colleges in the United States and Europe offer courses in the field.
Ecopsychology lacks a scientific journal, and no Sigmund Freud-type figure has fully developed its theory. For now, the American Psychological Association is neutral toward the practice. “It is an emerging field of study, and we are certainly watching it,” said Kim Mills, a spokeswoman for the organization.
Some psychologists are skeptical that the practice of ecopsychology has any provable benefits.
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These people are off their rocker.....
They also sell eco-credits and validate parking.
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There are probably many teenagers that have never experienced such isolation. I mean no cellphone how can she survive?
The disorder is purely “psycho-ceramic”. that is, the work of a crackpot.
Will they be applying water boarding as a cure? You know in your heart it is the only way to bring some of these people to their sences!
OMG-
Why bother questioning it? It’s psychology, need one say more? Psychology is the phrenology of our time.
Like Global Warming you’ll be screamed at, shouted down, endure ad homonym attacks, all awhile they talk of open mindedness and how this all is based on scientific fact which is indisputable if you really question it.
Make reference to Socialist Healthcare. There is a beauty with a capitalist healthcare system isn’t there? Of course in some social system if something like this actually picks up steam politically you might actually get state funding for it. In social medicine, politics decide where and how resources are allocated. You see this even in the VA. The VA spent tens of millions on AIDS research because this was a big hot button political topic, but in the meantime (before the war when VETs were not in the spotlight) VETs were waiting in line all day for a prescription, had to wait three or four months for an MRI, etc etc etc. Because AIDS was a big political issue, resources were reallocated in a way that get people elected, not take care of the VET. You have people like Charles Rangle who created a special commission that investigate certain race issues at the VA. Millions are spent on this as well. You have numerous people that sit at the VA and generate paperwork that is meaningless essentially. But for the Black Charles Rangel who is backed by his black constituents in Harlem, this race issue is paramount, even if it was a non-existent issue from the start.
In socialist healthcare bureaucrats and politicians decide where the money is spent and what care you get. Private healthcare is painful, it makes a consumer make even life and death decisions, but they are his to make. In a socialist healthcare system you have rationing of care, you just aren’t aware of it while you stand in a common feeder line, can’t see a specialist without consult, only get the off brand or older drugs for an ailment, wait four months for a bypass surgery or even just an MRI, get a nurse that isn’t an RN, and have are placed in a hospital that has a horrible patient to nurse ratio.
I like it when “I” make my decisions for my own life. But I guess some people are too afraid to walk their own path and would rather abdicate personal choice and have some state apparatus take their hand and make these choices for them.
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Thanks for the note, Tom! Will Katie need therapy after the divorce? |
I wish they had some of these “psycho-therapists” who could help those of us who are anxious about the future of the planet Mercury. Recent photos returned from Messenger are showing that “global warming” (”climate change” for the more “progressive” among us.), is causing our little buddy to shrivel like a prune. I’m am deeply concerned about the future of that planet.
back in college i noticed one common thread between all psychology majors -the desire to understand their own diseased minds.
That, in fact, is probably what most of them need. I spent the morning pruning trees and getting seed beds ready. A couple of days in a row of that and they’ll be more than happy to start worrying about something else.
Do they sell ecoderangement offsets?
I remember in 1980, Mt. St. Helens had some difficulties.
It was later discovered that Mt. St. Helens had not taken her Earth Control pills.
Wnen Al Gore puts his carbon footprints inside some cement golashes, I’ll sit up and take notice. Until then . . .
Thanks for the laugh and ping SOA.
Ping, ya’ll.
I noticed much the same back in my college days. I knew a couple of psych majors pretty well. Knew them since we were kids. Knew their families. In those cases there was a history of mental illness in those families.
Once out in the "real world", one finally ended up in the "funny farm" and the other committed suicide a few years back.
They were sad individuals.
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