Through my work, I hope to contribute to a deeper awareness and understanding of the ecological psyche. Striving for a more conscious understanding of and a more intentional participation in our relationship to the natural world, I advocate for the healing and tending of the human-earth relationship, individually and collectively.
JAMES LITER, Ph.D.
ECOPSYCHOLOGIST
Currently writing a brief history of ecopsychology, James is the author of several journal essays, a collection of poetry, and the soon to be released The Hilltending Notebooks. He holds a Ph.D. in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, where he also completed his certification in Ecopsychology. His doctoral research provides new insights to the ecological psyche, identifying, naming, and analyzing the archetypal patterning of two primary and distinct approaches to the human-habitat relationship, which he identified as the terracentric and geocosmological.
I engage in an ongoing inquiry into the human relationship to habitat that seeks more conscious, effective, and healthier ways of (re)becoming a member of the earth community. My research focuses on the ecological psyche and includes areas such as working with the ecological unconscious, regenerative agriculture, the challenges of “breaking the habits” formed through cultural conditioning of our modern, consumerist society, and spiritual ecology.
Along with transforming my own way of being on the earth, I make the products of my research available through my writings and publications.
