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Psychology and Trees: The Missing Role of Place

November 12, 2013 by Susan Bodnar Leave a Comment

In California, a young tree looked on as a group of people engineered bark and wood into what would become the first boat. Four thousand years later the same tree, Methuselah, now overlooks a town that hosts a wild, wild west marathon.  Trees have witnessed the worst of human nature – lynching, war, and treason […]

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Psychobiome; A Psychotherapy for the Future?

September 30, 2013 by Susan Bodnar Leave a Comment

The newly emergent research into the microbiome provides a useful metaphor for understanding that a cluster of interdependent factors may play a role in individual mental health.

Filed Under: diagnosis, series convergence of psychological and environmental health Tagged With: alternative to diagnostic categories, alternative to psychological diagnosis, alternatives to DSM-V, applications of microbiome to mental health, new concepts in mental health, psychobiome, Psychological microbiome

Limits Sustain People and the Environment

July 15, 2011 by Susan Bodnar Leave a Comment

Part Five of the series on convergence of environmental and mental health (see part 1 here,  part 2 here, part 3 here and part 4 here ). image from www.20somethingfinance.com President Obama is correctly observing that budgetary health depends on incisive and strategic limit setting.The same is true for ecological and psychological health. Most people tend to over correct for problems assuming that […]

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The Arts, Sustainability and Mental Health

July 8, 2011 by Susan Bodnar 1 Comment

Part four of the series on convergence of environmental and mental health (see part 1 here,  part 2 here and part 3 here ). When a person is troubled by symptoms and problems that cause pain to self and others psychotherapy is an invaluable curative process.  Yet, the process of exploration should not be confined only to the therapist’s office. […]

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Going Outside as a Mental Health Strategy

June 27, 2011 by Susan Bodnar 3 Comments

Part three of the series on convergence of environmental and mental health (see part 1 here and part 2 here). Mental health experts (and parents) argue that people of all ages need to spend time outside. Richard Louv has gathered some of the latest research in his two books: Last Child in the Woods and The […]

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Eat Food, With Others

June 24, 2011 by Susan Bodnar 5 Comments

(The second in a series about the convergence of psychological and environmental health) One strategy that any person or family can adopt to promote psychological and environmental health is to pay a good deal of attention to what is happening at the kitchen table. Almost five years ago Michael Pollan advised “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” While […]

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What Are We Doing?

June 22, 2011 by Susan Bodnar 3 Comments

(The first in a series about the convergence of psychological and environmental health) News from the natural world continues to haunt and this report from ISPO (international program on the state of the ocean) warns of a mass extinction in our lifetime. And Al Gore is assailing the Obama administration for its failure to take […]

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Susan Bodnar, Ph.D

Relational Psychologist


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