Looking for something special for the eco-wacko in your life? How about a gift certificate for a couple sessions with an ecopsychologist.
Yes, ecopsychology. It’s a new branch of psychology that helps you reduce your worries while while simultaneously helping reduce your carbon footprint. It helps you work on personal relationships and your relationship to nature.
In other words, you still tell the psychologist that your mother didn’t understand you. But now you can add that your elm tree doesn’t understand you, either.
“Global warming has added an extra layer of anxiety to what people are already feeling,” said Sandy Shulmire a practicing ecopsychologist.
Some psychologists think the whole thing is a giant load of bunkum.
“If the patient has generalized anxiety disorder, he or she is going to be worrying about almost everything,” noted Dr. Scott Lilienfeld, a psychology professor at Emory University.
Odds are you won’t be able to see your own doctor under Obama’s new healthcare plan, but will be able to see an ecopsychologist.
Or are we just being eco-paranoid?
Source: New York Times
