Ecopsychology on deep ecology

Quote: "We must find and develop therapies which heal our relations..." Arne Naess

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

“We must find and develop therapies which heal our relations with the widest community, that of all living beings.” —Arne Naess

Profile: Francis Weller

Sun, 28 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Francis Weller is a psychotherapist, author, and ritual elder who examines connections between grief, ecological crisis, and community healing. Trained in depth psychology and influenced by indigenous wisdom traditions, he bridges Western therapeutic approaches with ritual practices of community healing.

Weller’s work on “ecological grief” proposes that sorrow for environmental destruction represents natural response rather than pathology. He suggests that capacity to feel this grief relates to ability to act on behalf of ecological systems. Through development of grief rituals, men’s initiation work, and community healing practices, he has created supportive containers where people can process both personal and collective trauma.

Essay: RAINFOREST and PSYCHE

Thu, 03 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

by John Seed

In the fourth World Rainforest Report, Queensland zoologist Peter Dwyer noted that the New Guinea highlanders find the rainforest wildlife not only good to eat, but also “good to think”.

He goes on to say that “Whilst we don’t eat our rainforests, we do become enmeshed in our perceptions and thinking about them until they suddenly and vividly possess for us values that we can only identify as symbolic, intrinsic and – with some desperation, – as spiritual.

Essay: Ecopsychology: The Birth of A New Proffesion

Fri, 18 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

By Theodore Roszak

excerpt from “The Voice of the Earth by Theodore Roszak - Simon Schuster 1992

In the post-Earth Summit era it is becoming clear that the environmental movement will have to find a new way forward if it is to achieve its ambitious agenda for change. The Earth Summit succeeded in clearly establishing one fact; We are all-literally all-in one planetary boat. The living standard of the rich has been maintained largely off natural resources, labor, and the unwilling compliance of the poor. Now the poor demand their share, and we see that there is no benefit the rich nations enjoy that the poor nations cannot deny them or destroy by the reckless “development” of their resources.

Essay: Ecopsychology – by John Seed

Sun, 02 Oct 1994 00:00:00 +0000

PAPER DELIVERED BY JOHN SEED TO THE ECOPSYCHOLOGY SYMPOSIUM AT THE AUSTRALIAN PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY’S 28TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE, GOLD COAST, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA, 2/10/94

I take “ecopsychology” to mean psychology in service to the Earth. ECO, PSYCHE, LOGOS: Knowing that the Earth is home to our soul. In spite of the modern delusion of alienation, of separation from the living Earth, we are NOT aliens, we belong here. The human psych too is Earth-born, the result of 4000 million years of continuous evolution and the complex, exquisite biology from which psyche emerged inevitably remains the matrix, the grounding of any sane psychology.