In this soon to be released collection of essays, Dr. Liter explores the conscious and unconscious interactions of the ecological psyche and Earth, and how we might nurture healthier relationships between them.
What is the ecological psyche? How is it structured? How can I work with it to improve my relationship to the Earth?
Dr. Liter takes a depth psychological approach to engage these questions and, along with stories of experiences in his own “econarrative,” provides concise theoretical foundations and offers practical ecotherapeutic practices. These essays provide a foundation for counselors, caregivers, and concerned individuals to bring an understanding of the ecological psyche into their work and lives.
At times personal reflections, at times scholarly research, and at other times informal case studies, the essays in The Hilltending Notebooks attempt to identify and integrate into a more cohesive whole the complex and often unconscious aspects of our ecopsychological relationship with the Earth.
CONTENTS
Part 1: Breaking the Habit of Being Human
- Apprenticing to the Ecological Psyche and Breaking the Habit of Being Human
- Paths to Wholeness: The Great Mother, The World Soul, and Ecological Individuation
- What is it Like to be an Ant? Archetypal Psychodynamics, Rebirth, and Spirit in Relationships to Nature
- Practicum 1: Named and Tended: Coming Home to Nature Through the Archetypal Experience of Place
Part 2: Working with the Images of the Ecological Psyche
- Spirit of the Depths: Jung’s Black Books, The Red Book, and Imaginal Ecopsychology
- Working with the Dreams of the Ecological Psyche
- The Rune Reader Born From the Earth: Mythic Amplification of Relationship to Habitat
- Soul, Earth, and Cosmos: Ecopsychology and Archetypal Cosmology
- Practicum 2: The Philosopher’s Stone: The Practice of Alchemical Econarrative
Part 3: The Ecology of Body, Soul, and Spirit
- Wildflowers and Red Wing Blackbirds: Dream Ritual in the Natural World
- Addiction and Recovery in our Relationship to Habitat
- from soul to rocky strand: embodied experience in the natural world
- Seeing Like Trees: Spirituality and the Ecological Psyche
- Practicum 3: Weeping for the Planet, Singing with the Stars: Terracentric and Geocosmological Practices for Coming to Terms with Eco-Grief