Books
In the early 1990s, I was part of a group of psychologists who were also environmental activists. We came to call the integration of our interests “ecopsychology.” Unknown to us, historian Theodore Roszak was up the hill in Berkeley writing The Voice of the Earth, in which he proposed a new area be formed: ecopsychology. Eventually, psychologist Mary Gomes and I teamed up with Ted to edit Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind. Included here are the two chapters that Mary and I co-wrote.
Roszak, T., Gomes, M.E., & Kanner, A.D. (Eds.) (1995). Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind. San Francisco: Sierra Club.
The All-Consuming Self
The Rape of the Well-Maidens
Psychology and Consumer Culture: The Struggle for a Good Life in a Materialistic World, co-edited with psychologist Tim Kasser, describes various ways that capitalism and consumerism are psychologically harmful. In the introduction, Tim and I discuss why our field has been so timid about taking on these key topics. In my chapter with psychologist Renee Soule, “Globalization, Corporate Culture and Freedom,” we identify the corporation as the driving force behind world-wide capitalism, the myriad ways corporate culturedamages work, the family, education, and the field of psychology, and how corporate cultureinhibits freedom,bothexternally and internally
Kasser, T., & Kanner, A.D. (Eds.). (2004). Psychology and Consumer Culture: The Struggle for a Good Life in a Materialistic World. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.
Where is the Psychology of Consumer Culture?
Globalization, Corporate Culture, and Freedom