Biotope für die Seele

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Healing through experiencing landscape? Deichgräber does not give an insight into the latest trend of psychotherapy but into an asset to established psychotherapeutic methods - a supplement that could be common sense, but which is often lost in today's dynamic world. Deichgräber shows that people relate not only to other people but to landscapes in which they live: a big sky, dark clouds, wind in grass, rugged cliffs, deep lakes - we feel drawn to and at home in some landscapes. They are rich of healing powers, which strengthen and have a soothing effect on our souls. Landscapes can therefore support healing processes of psychological ill people. Deichgräber explains on four selected examples what landscapes can offer a person that opens all senses to the healing powers. The diverse examples depict the qualities of this hardly used therapy.