Mapping The Psyche Between Self And Soil: A Review Of Bill Plotkin's "Wild Mind" By Carolyn Baker

Mapping The Psyche Between Self And Soil: A Review Of Bill Plotkin's "Wild Mind" By Carolyn Baker

As a former psychotherapist and as a student of eco-psychology, I was thrilled to learn of Bill Plotkin’s work several years ago if for no other reason that that he describes himself as a “psychologist gone wild.” Within today’s dismal mental health scene dominated by the pharmaceutical industry and the not-so-hidden agenda of producing malleable consumers who blend compliantly into the milieu of empire, Plotkin’s work resuscitates the mental health landscape with notions of vibrant humanity and unprecedented aliveness.