ECOLOGICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS

Ecological Problems and Psychology Problems

Ecological Problems and Psychology Problems

Introduction

This document is based on the question do you think that environmental problems are psychological problems? This question will be answered in relation to books written by three well-known authors. First, David Abrams "Ecology of Magic", and secondly, Charles Siebert is an elephant cracks, and thirdly, "Another Look back and look to the future" by Edward Tenner.

David Abram is an ecologist, an anthropologist and philosopher, but it is working with the magic that most of them in the form of studies on the relationship between environment, human experience, and ways of perception. After the magic trick was performed, said Abraham, we are left without any framework of explanation. We are suddenly floating in the open space of direct sensory experience, are in fact facing the world without bias, even if only for a moment. This is an issue that he brings the field of ecopsychology and environmental philosophy.

Charles Siebert is becoming more aware of his New York Times magazine editorials. His works can be found on the searing analysis of human and animal, which is hidden in the folds of personal, accessible and, above all, poetic writing. He manages to educate readers about the fate of animal shelters in the United States, the conflicts inherent in caring for older chimpanzees, as well as the complex relationship between humans and the environment, all within the context of visceral autobiographical writing that creates the inexperience and self-discovery does not become remotely saccharine.

Edward Tenner, a former executive editor for physical sciences and history at Princeton University, holds visiting research appointments in the Department of Geological and Geophysical Sciences at Princeton University. He received A.B. from Princeton and Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago, and held visiting research positions at Rutgers University and the Institute for Advanced Studies. In 1991-92, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow and in 1995-96 was a member of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Discussion

All three have shown, the authors of the various components of cognitive systems, such as values, beliefs and norms related to environmental activities. In particular, the various clusters of personal values in relation to environmental behavior, and even in some populations, derived from the distinctive focus on environmental values can not be taken as the criteria for cognitive or guidelines on environmental issues.

During his studies, Abram came to the role of traditional healers and magicians, as bridging the gap between man and nature, the shaman and sorcerer, "he tells us, is a model Voyager of the intermediate sphere between the man and more than human worlds" (www. primitivism.com). (www.primitivism.com).

Seibert believes that environmental beliefs are the relationships between humans and the environment, as evidenced by anthropocentric and eco-center problems, at least (www.africanconservation.org). While Tenner in his book showed that both sets of beliefs have been organized around the problems associated with the effects of environmental problems in relation to oneself, others and all other forms of life, in other words, somewhat ...