{"id":664,"date":"2013-05-07T13:59:02","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T20:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/?p=664"},"modified":"2013-05-07T14:10:36","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T21:10:36","slug":"diversity-in-ecopsychology-a-review-by-john-scull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/diversity-in-ecopsychology-a-review-by-john-scull\/","title":{"rendered":"Diversity in Ecopsychology: A Review by John Scull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Screen-Shot-2013-05-07-at-1.52.28-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-666 aligncenter\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-05-07 at 1.52.28 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Screen-Shot-2013-05-07-at-1.52.28-PM-247x300.png\" width=\"247\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Screen-Shot-2013-05-07-at-1.52.28-PM-247x300.png 247w, https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Screen-Shot-2013-05-07-at-1.52.28-PM-310x376.png 310w, https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Screen-Shot-2013-05-07-at-1.52.28-PM-135x163.png 135w, https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Screen-Shot-2013-05-07-at-1.52.28-PM-485x588.png 485w, https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Screen-Shot-2013-05-07-at-1.52.28-PM.png 605w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Review of Peter H. Kahn, Jr., and Patricia H. Hasback. <em>Ecopsychology:\u00a0 Science, Totems, and the Technological Species<\/em>, by John Scull, Ph.D.<\/p>\n<p>John&#8217;s review begins:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There is a confusing tangle of words about the several psychological disciplines related to the environment \u2013 environmental psychology, ecological psychology, conservation psychology, human ecology.\u00a0 It is not just confusing for outsiders:\u00a0 When communicating among themselves, psychologists need to explain what they mean because different writers have used these words in different ways.\u00a0 These diverse fields all have one common feature; they are in the mainstream of academic social psychology.\u00a0 They all privilege experiments and other controlled quantitative research over qualitative research and they elevate all kinds of research above anecdotal evidence, clinical experience, opinion, narrative, and philosophy.<\/p>\n<p>Ecopsychology has come from different traditions.\u00a0 The diverse pioneers in the field arrived at ecopsychology from humanistic and transpersonal psychology, experiential environmental education, scientific ecology, systems thinking, and deep ecology.\u00a0 As a result, the field has been much more interdisciplinary than the inclusion of\u00a0 \u201cpsychology\u201d in the coined word suggests.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Download\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Scull-Review-of-Kahn-and-Hasbach.pdf\">this pdf<\/a> for the rest &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Review of Peter H. Kahn, Jr., and Patricia H. Hasback. 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