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Ordinary Earth Returns: People Need a Place

April 15, 2010 by Susan Bodnar Leave a Comment

The importance of a sense of place to psychological well-being became evident during my travel to Israel. While we understand many psychological difficulties in terms of relationships (particularly parental), or development, or even the body, rarely do psychologists venture into the significance of space and place. Human geographers like Yi-Fu Tuan, Nigel Thrift, Steve Pile […]

Filed Under: geography, human interaction, personal environmentalism, Uncategorized Tagged With: ecological unconscious. human relationship to nature, human relationship to nature, relationship to place

We the People: A Response to Evan Thomas and Al Gore

March 2, 2010 by Susan Bodnar Leave a Comment

An adolescent with whom I work discussed the complexity of privilege.  “My parents paid just over $12,000.00 for our family to go on a 5-day wilderness backpacking trip, with a service that provides the gear, the food, a plane to transport you there and a guide. I loved it and it changed me, like any […]

Filed Under: climate change, ecopsychcology, human animal interaction, personal environmentalism Tagged With: AL Gore NYT, climate change, ecological unconscious. human relationship to nature, Evan Thomas Newsweeek, excess living, ground up environmental change, human relationship to nature, personal environmentalism, pschological aspects of climate change, sustainability

Thoughts on the Ecological Unconscious

February 1, 2010 by Susan Bodnar Leave a Comment

A NYTimes article by Daniel Smith describes a growing field of psychology, ecopsychology, that examines links between the function of the human psyche and nature.  Glenn Albrecht in Australia coined “solastalgia” – “the pain experienced when there is recognition that the place where one resides and that one loves is under immediate assault.”  Thomas Doherty […]

Filed Under: climate change, human interaction, personal environmentalism Tagged With: ecological unconscious. human relationship to nature, green consciousness, mind nature relationship, solastalgia, urban environmentalism

Susan Bodnar, Ph.D

Relational Psychologist


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