The Importance of Psychotherapy as an Eco-systemic Activity

From The Psychotherapist, Issue 40, Winter 2008-9, pp.31-33: Directly as a result of our influence, the ecosystems of the planet are becoming corrupted (in its original sense of rupture), broken down and disintegrated. It follows that the human psyche is the root origin, cause and catalyst of these changes. It is not so much the physical eco-systemic changes that are the 'problem', as usually presented - these are merely symptomatic of deeper causes rooted in the human unconscious, in unfulfilled desires and strivings, as expressed and acted out through everyday behaviour. These deeper dimensions of eco-systemic 'problems' have been neglected for decades by both the environmental movement and by psychotherapists.