ecopsychotherapy
ecopsychotherapy noun: nature-centered psychotherapy: the use of nature to promote mental health.
Noun
ecopsychotherapy (uncountable)
- Nature-centered psychotherapy: the use of nature to promote mental health.
- In [Paul] Shepard’s and [Theodore] Roszak’s version, providing ecopsychotherapy and changing our child rearing practices will reunite us with nature and help us avert environmental catastrophe.1998, Randall White, “Psychiatry and Ecopsychology”, chapter 13 of Ante Lundberg (editor), The Environment and Mental Health: A Guide for Clinicians, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, page 211
- While psychotherapy has traditionally looked within the individual for answers, ecopsychotherapy explores how the answers may be found in our relationship with the natural environment.1998, George William Burns, Nature-Guided Therapy: Brief Integrative Strategies for Health and Well-being, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 76
Origin of ecopsychotherapy
From eco- + psychotherapy; perhaps influenced by ecopsychology and ecopsychiatry.
Questions about ecopsychotherapy
- What does ecopsychotherapy mean?
- Ecopsychotherapy means nature-centered psychotherapy: the use of nature to promote mental health.
- What part of speech is ecopsychotherapy?
- Ecopsychotherapy is a noun.
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