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The Negev: Desert People

April 11, 2010 by Susan Bodnar 1 Comment

After passing through a fertile agriculture zone,  one confronts the sand dunes of the Negev. In this dry, hot place, the evidence of human innovation is everywhere. With bold sweeps, the land rolls seemingly endlessly onward.  Yet, human communities live within this the expansive collage of sand, rock, and the majesty of the maktesh, exemplifying […]

Filed Under: Israel, travel, Uncategorized Tagged With: environment, human relationships, mind nature relationship, Negev desert

Diagnosis, Flow and Motion

March 16, 2010 by Susan Bodnar 1 Comment

“Don’t tell me what is going on with me, help me understand the how of me.” AJ, a 24 year old male. With the release of the proposed draft revisions (version 5) to DSM disorders and criteria, new questions have arisen about psychiatric diagnosis.  Articles like the very in-depth analysis by Louis Menand in The […]

Filed Under: human interaction, mental illness Tagged With: DSM-V, human relationship to nature, human relationships, Jonah Lehrer, Louis Menard, mental health, mind nature relationship, psychiatric diagnosis, psychological diagnosis, psychological disorder, psychopathology

People Don’t Always Act in their Best Interest

March 9, 2010 by Susan Bodnar Leave a Comment

Some people have been debating whether or not scientists should become climate change activists or if they should stick to the data. The concern is that the general population seems less worried about environmental issues.  Given our culture’s typical reliance on external solutions to problems, it doesn’t surprise me that journalists and pundits are looking […]

Filed Under: climate change, ecopsychcology, human interaction, personal environmentalism, relationships, Uncategorized Tagged With: climate change, ecoloical unconscious, environment, ground up environmental change, human relationship to nature, human relationships, mind nature relationship, personal environmentalism, pschological aspects of climate change

Spring?

March 14, 2009 by Susan Bodnar Leave a Comment

The temperature reached 50 degrees in New York City.  Our dog was activated.  He held his head high as he scanned the open field before him, looking for a playmate, sniffing the air replete with the odor of emergent plant life.  A red-breasted robin moved his head side to side while hopping toward a fallen […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: human relationships, ordinary, relationship to nature

Susan Bodnar, Ph.D

Relational Psychologist


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