Ecology and psychology
Ecopsychology brings psychological principles and practices to research on landscape and wellbeing. According to Jungian analyst Mary-Jayne Rust (2004), ecopsychology is a movement that has emerged in the last two decades, attempting to connect psychological and ecological worlds in order to speak about the psychological roots and impact of the current environmental crisis. Rust shows that psychology has entirely been concerned with human relationships “not acknowledging the part that the other-than-human world may play in our lives” (Rust 2002). Ecopsychology argues that not knowing the relationship to the more-than-human world, and acting as if being set apart from this world, has disastrous consequences that are not only ecological, social and economical, but psychological. Most of its practitioners and theorists are based in the USA, and are rooted in humanistic psychology (Searles 1960), and so far research in ecopsychology has come very short, since most work so far is either dir...