I had a touch of the biophilia, topophilia, ecophilia, soliphilia and
eutierria this very morning when the postman didn't leave me any mail
Ps is psychoterratic relayed to psychoterrotic ? P
P more confused than ever but 're-placing' fast
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Subject: Re: new vocab needed?
You know the postman said just the same to me this morning.
On 7 August 2012 21:51, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> With a new psychoterratic language to describe and "re-place" our
> emotions and feelings, powerful transformative forces are unleashed.
> Solastalgia is fixated on the melancholic, but it is also a foundation
> for action that will negate it. There is a positive side to
> psychoterratic classifications, one where positive earth emotions and
> feelings such as biophilia, topophilia, ecophilia, soliphilia and
> eutierria can be used to counter the negative and destructive.
>
> [Glenn Albrecht is professor of sustainability at Murdoch University
> in Perth, Western Australia. He is an environmental philosopher with
> both theoretical and applied interests in the relationship between
> ecosystem and human health. He has pioneered the research domain of
> 'psychoterratic' or earth related mental health conditions with the
> concept of 'solastalgia' or the lived experience of negative
> environmental change, now internationally recognised and used.]
>
> The Conversation <[log in to unmask]>
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