ABSTRACT
This paper explores how psychotherapy might begin to facilitate the development of an ecological subjectivity in post modernity. I will take a critical look at the concepts of nature and subjectivity: my argument is that we need to start to re-imagine the ecological subject and how an “ecopsychotherapy” might help in facilitating the development of an ecological self. I will explore how the process of ecological communication occurs between mind and nature at the present time in history. We live in an age where the environment can no longer be positioned as a passive backdrop; climate change, species extinction, environmental degradation and potential catastrophe lurk both in the forefront and in the hinterlands of our consciousness. Nature and subjectivity are not static entities, both are in flux, multiplicities that assemble and disassemble in a process of becoming. The paper will explore how the human and the natural need to be re-imagined in order to understand and develop ecological subjectivities suited to merging and emerging postnatural contexts. I will not explore psychotherapy practice in natural environments in any depth, but instead focus on the subject at the heart of an ecopsychotherapeutic project: the ecologicalpsychological subject which ecopsychology aims to foreground in an attempt at reconnection to the natural world as a reciprocal process.
