Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Beginning with one's self; 1 Soul, earth and migration in contemporary society; 2 On Carl Gustav Jung's ""Mind and Earth""; 3 The place of origins; 4 Space, genius loci and sacrality of place; 5 Maps and geography: Reality and fantasy; 6 The journey; 7 Exile, nostalgia, return; 8 The foreign patient; Bibliography; 9 ""Animated"" places: Rooting and impermanence; 10 The garden, psychic landscape; 11 The dark places, or on the evil of innocence; 12 The earth, the song, the symbol
13 Exile: An impossible return?14 Places of healing; 15 Body and psyche: Compenetration of opposites; 16 ""Every rose is telling of the secrets of the universal"": Symbols and the natural world; 17 ""Gentle action"": Environmental sustainability in soul and earth; Index
Summary
On Soul and Earth offers an original perspective on the relationship between the environment and the human psyche. Physical spaces contribute to the building of identity through personal experience and memory. Places evoke emotions and carry their own special meanings. Elena Liotta and her contributors also explore the neglected topics of migration and travel. The author has extensive clinical experience of working with patients from a wide variety of national and cultural backgrounds. Globalization is present in the clinical office as well as in the wider world and the trans
