PSY435H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter N/A: Construals, Deep Ecology, Transpersonal Psychology
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Towards ecological self: deep ecology meets constructionist self-theory. Deep ecology uses the ecological self. moral or prescriptive. If all this occurs, and the ecological self is threatened, you feel threatened; enough to take action. Development of ecological self: deep ecologists believe that one can change their sense of self to include the environment. Our self-construct is matter of personal choice: community activities build the sense of self to include others, as does many religions. Transpersonal self: transpersonal psychology is specifically concerned with experiences of self beyond the personal, which encompasses the universe and the spiritual, most transpersonal psychologists focus on exclusively human or other-worldly" realms. Biological or embodied self: the embodied/biological self is similar to the ecological self. It is suggested that the relative importance of the biological organisms in terms of identity declines throughout one"s life as other sources increase: the ecological self is the self as perceived with respect to the physical environment.
