{"product_id":"wild-therapy-undomesticating-inner-and-outer-worlds","title":"Wild Therapy: Undomesticating Inner and Outer Worlds","description":"\u003cp\u003eTherapy is by nature wild; but a lot of it at the moment is rather tame. This book tries to help shift the balance back towards wildness by showing how therapy can connect with ecological thinking  seeing each species  each being  each person inherently and profoundly linked to each other. Hence we develop a sense of the endless complexity of existence; and realise that wildness  a state where things are allowed to happen of their own accord  is far more deeply complex than domesticated civilisation  just as a jungle - or even a piece of wasteland - is more complex than a garden. Psychotherapy has often opposed the cultural message Be in control of yourself and your environment: it has tried to help people tolerate the anxiety of not being in control - of our feelings  our thoughts  our body  our future. But the struggle over control has now reached inside the field of therapy itself: the push for management  measurement and regulation is getting stronger. On a larger scale it seems that our efforts to control the world are well on the way to wrecking it through environmental collapse: the more we try to control things  the further out of balance we push them. \"Wild Therapy\" offers a context for all this in the Neolithic bargain whereby humans exchanged freedom and wildness for domestication and safety. Connecting the attitudes of forager cultures with contemporary Western understandings of consciousness  it delineates a mode of being present in all cultures  Wild Mind; and explores how this can be supported through a wild therapy  bringing together a wide range of already-existing ideas and practices. It suggests that wild therapy has a role to play in the work of creating a new culture which can live well on the earth without damaging ourselves and other beings.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44947698286645,"sku":"ByrdShop_1906254362","price":227.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781906254360.jpg?v=1770025458","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/wild-therapy-undomesticating-inner-and-outer-worlds","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}