I’ve co-edited two books, Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind, which is considered a seminal book in the field of ecopsychology, and Psychology and Consumer Culture: The Struggle for a Good Life in a Materialistic World, published by the American Psychological Association.

In the 1990s and 2000s, I was a regular contributor to Tikkun Magazine. In 1990, I cofounded the activist group Fairplay, originally called The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, which is dedicated to helping children thrive in a hyper-commercialized world and ending marketing to children. I’ve been featured in two documentaries, Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood and the multiple-award-winning Call of Life: Facing the Mass Extinction.

In 1997, Utne Reader  chose me as one of the nation’s top ten activist therapists for my work in ecopsychology. 

In private practice for over forty years, I’ve taught at several clinical graduate schools in the Bay Area, including 10 years at the Wright Institute in Berkeley. I was an undergraduate and graduate at U.C. Berkeley (research degree), post-doctoral fellow in clinical child psychology at McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School (1981-83) and staff psychologist at Children’s Hospital at Stanford (1984-86).  

CURRICULUM VITAE, ALLEN D. KANNER