Returning the Self to Nature

Undoing Our Collective Narcissism and Healing Our Planet

De: Jeanine M. Canty

Narrado por: Mia Ellis

Using the lens of ecopsychology, Returning the Self to Nature shows that the pervasive and extreme forms of narcissism we find in many modern societies are fundamentally the result of alienation from the natural world. But it doesn't have to be that way.

Returning the Self to Nature is written for the person who no longer wishes to function in a world that revolves around selfish, disconnected identity models and yearns to step into healthy relationships with one's self, one's community, and our planet.

Seeing the suffering of the planet and that of humans as inseparably linked—the ecological crisis as psychological crisis, and vice versa—opens the door to a mutuality of healing between people and nature. At the heart of both chronic and acute forms of narcissism is a socially constructed false self.

Through unflinching analysis and meditation practices that encourage visualizing and embodying the wild naturalness of being human, the listener will gain skills to begin experiencing a courageous, pluralistic, and ecological self. This book is an invitation to wake up from the dream of the false self and join the movement toward social and planetary healing.

©2022 Jeanine M. Canty (P)2022 Tantor

Thought Provoking

I love how this book discussed all the disease in our current society which we need to confront. I wish it provided more solutions within nature.

best book I've heard in a while

powerful, profound and transformative. I have recommended thus book to colleagues and have listened to it more than once.

Repetitive DNF 76%

DNF 76%
Based on the name of this book, and even the description, I expected examples of how our narcissism is showing up in our interactions with nature, and then how we can fix that. Instead what I got was not quite memoir, but similar in the vein that there is a lot of focus on the author's experience, and while she calls out that is not qualified to diagnosis NPD because she is an ecopsychologist, I felt like I saw a lot more of that biases/broad generalization. I wish that I saw more "eco" involved.

It's repetitive and I don't need to know more about how we are narcissist, I would like more answers on how we heal the planet.