Ecological Psychology: Healing the Split Between Planet and Self - Couverture souple

Winter, Deborah Dunann

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0673997642 ISBN 13 : 9780673997647

Editeur : Longman, 1997

Synopsis

This work seeks to explain how human behaviour, thoughts, beliefs, values and feelings have contributed to environmental crises and how contributions from within psychology could aid the understanding and resolution of our environmental problems. The author examines social psychology, psychoanalysis, behaviourism, cognitive, and gestalt/transperal psychology and applies these theories to a selected environmental problem.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This book is an introduction to psychology as it applies to environmental problems. Chapter 1 outlines the main features of our environmental difficulties and argues that because they have been caused by human behaviors, beliefs, decisions, and values, psychology is crucial for finding solutions to them. Chapter 2 discusses some historical contributions in Western intellectual thought to contemporary views about nature. Chapters 3 to 7 each examine a particular field or theory in psychology and applies it to a selected environmental problem. Chapter 8 summarizes and compares these five psychological approaches and analyzes where psychology has been and where the author believes it should go in order to make stronger and more potent contributions to solving the environmental problems.

As an introduction to psychology applied to environmental problems, this book is written for the introductory psychology student, the environmental studies student, and for the layperson who may wonder if psychology has anything useful to say about mounting ecological difficulties.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Longman
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0673997642
• ISBN 13: 9780673997647
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible