What is Ecological Psychology (or Ecopsychology)?
While the human mind is shaped by the modern social world, it is readily inspired and comforted by the wider natural world because that is where it originally evolved. Human psychology therefore cannot be understood as only intrapsychic phenomena or social relations, but has also to include the relationship of humans to ecosystems and other species. These relations have a deep evolutionary history, natural affinity with the structure of the brain and deep psychic significance in the present time, in spite of urbanization. Humans are dependent on healthy nature not only for their physical sustenance, but for their mental health. Ecopsychology considers human links and bonds with nature because when nature is explored and viewed without judgment, it can give the healing sensation of harmony, balance, timelessness and stability. Ecopsychology recognizes that without the influence of nature, humans are prone to a variety of delusions whereby they can become self-centered, alienated and ins
