The term ecopsychology emerged in 1989 from a group of researchers at the University of Berkeley, such as Robert Greenway, Elan Shapiro, Alan Kanner, Mary Gomes and Theodore Roszak. In 1992, Roszak released the book “The Voice of the Earth: An Exploration of Ecopsychology” and in 1995, Gomes and Kanner published “Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind“, the two books responsible for spreading this ecopsychology movement worldwide.
Ecopsychology combines ecology, which studies the environment, with psychology, which studies the human being, functioning as an approach to psychology that seeks to understand psychic connections with the natural world. This is a perspective that helps us to better understand ourselves and the world around us, recognizing that nature is not something separate from human beings, that is, we are not independent beings. In fact, we are part of nature and, together with it, we form a unity.