Terrapsychological Inquiry

Restorying Our Relationship with Nature, Place, and Planet
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-85921-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 172 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 268 g

Terrapsychological Inquiry is a qualitative research methodology seeking a form of inquiry that takes seriously our intense inner responses to the state of the natural world. Terrapsychology is a theory and practice approach that studies, from the standpoint of lived experience, how the world gets into the heart. Oceans and skies, trees and hills, rivers and soils, and even built things like houses, cities, ports, and planes: How do they show up for us inwardly? How do our moods, feelings, and dreams reflect what happens in the world?

Terrapsychological Inquiry evolved over a decade of experimentation by graduate students, instructors, workshop leaders and presenters, and other embodied creatives to offer a truly Earth-honoring mode of story-based qualitative inquiry, one that changes all involved from passive spectators of the doings of the world into active, sensitive participants. Learn how to use this methodology of reenchantment in a variety of settings inside and outside academia, and by doing so reenter an animate world.

Written in an engaging and accessible style, this introduction to a new research methodology will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental psychology, ecotherapy, and environment and sustainability studies more generally.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chalquist, Craig

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword Introduction: Inquiry as Response to the Animate World 1. What Is Terrapsychology? 2. Philosophy of the Methodology 3. Preparing for the Work 4. Terrapsychological Inquiry in Practice 5. Analyzing the Data 6. What the Findings Mean 7. Sharing the Results – and Onward! Glossary Appendix I: Common Research Obstacles Appendix II: Place Assessment Checklist Appendix III: Creating Heartsteads Appendix IV: Exploring Deep Ancestry Index

Über Autor(innen)

Craig Chalquist, PhD, is core faculty in the Department of East–West Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, USA.