Yi-Jia Tsai

I teach at the Department of Religious Studies, Fu-Jen Catholica University. When I was a student of Psychology, I was inspired by “Psychology of Being-in-the-World” advocated by Professor Yee, Der Huey. In 2010, I came across Ecopsychology through the Chinese edition of Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind translated by The Society of Wilderness in Taiwan. For me, Ecopsychology is an example of “Psychology of Being-in-the-World,” which integrates the wholeness of human mind and the health of the ecological environment. Ecopsychology attempts to restore the original reciprocity between human and nature by searching for an environmentally-based standard of mental health beyond the scope of anthropocentrism. My research topics in recent years, such as the spiritual vision of ecological picture books, spiritual experiences in nature, and the inspiration of Jungian psychology for ecological spirituality, are all rooted in these concerns. I teach Psychology of Religion, Ecopsychology, Religious Cultivation and Transformation, and Art, Spirituality and Healing, and published Psychology and Religion: A Humanistic and Hermeneutic Inquiry (2019). Recently I co-founded the blog "Rereading with Compound Eyes: Religious Studies and Humanistic Psychology", attempting to explore the possibility of plural academic writing.

Email: yijia.tsai@gmail.com
blog：https://rereadingreligion.org/