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Ecopsychology has seemed something like a 'field' or 'discipline' since Theodore Roszak's book (The Voice of the Earth) appeared in 1993. His was a call of an inclusion of the human psyche in our consideration of nature, and for an inclusion of nature in our various psychologies. In one sense it was an expression of astonishment that the two 'realms' ('nature' and 'psyche') had pulled so far apart, and an urgent call to pull the two together again. Since Roszak's publication there have been several books that could be said to have an explicit orientation to ecopsychology: the Roszak, Gomes, and Kanner book of ecopsychology readings; David Abram's The Spell of the Sensuous, Laura Sewell's Sight and Sensibility, Deborah Winter's Ecological Psychology, and Ralph Metzner's Green Earth. There are a number of master's degrees now out on ecopsychology, and even an excellent PhD thesis (Andy Fisher's, of York University): an excellent attempt at a "radical philosophical and experiential founda

Personal Ecopsychology: A Personal History ~ Robert Greenway Ecopsychology has seemed something like a 'field' or 'discipline' since Theodore Roszak's book ( The Voice of the Earth ) appeared in 1993. His was a call of an inclusion of the human psyche in our consideration of nature, and for an inclusion of nature in our various psychologies. In one sense it was an expression of astonishment that the two 'realms' ('nature' and 'psyche') had pulled so far apart, and an urgent call to pull the two together again. Since Roszak's publication there have been several books that could be said to have

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