Cultural Captivity: The Ecopsychology of Collective Trauma

Cultural Captivity: The Ecopsychology of Collective Trauma

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An East West Psychology PhD Dissertation by Vaughan Wilkins

California Institute of Integral Studies

August 13th, 2020



Abstract

This theoretical dissertation explores the impacts of the loss of ecological participation across animal species, including human animals. The field of ecopsychology and its applied branch, ecotherapy, focus on healing the relationship between people and the natural world brought on by this loss. However, due to myriad reasons the goals, focus, and effectiveness of these interventions have waned. In drawing from findings in the fields studying the collective symptoms of captive animals and modern trauma theory this dissertation seeks to refocus eco therapeutic efforts towards a unified approach to treating a collective and culturally transmitted form of developmental trauma - cultural captivity. By adopting trans-species psychology as a hermeneutic lens this dissertation traces the collective pathology first identified by ecopsychology across human and non-human animals to highlight and better understand the nature of the cultural captivity impacting ecological and psychological health in modern techno-industrial society. This dissertation provides new theoretical underpinnings for the development of ecotherapies that treat the cause of cultural captivity and lead towards collective liberation from this trauma.



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