ABSTRACT
Expressive forms such as dance and movement, ritual, music improvisation and narrative-construction in order to express and integrate complex experiences can expand the scope of expressive/creative arts therapeutic techniques. In recent years, new ideas of the arts and the creative function of the psyche that are more congruent with the ecological movement emerged as a result of some innovative ideas in the field of expressive arts therapies. Considerable similarity between modern environmental and ecopsychological understanding of the arts and world traditions, with their practices of collective expressions as a means to establish human connection with the environment, can be found. Contemporary environmental artists, especially those involved in the eco-art movement, often tend to use the whole environment as a living matrix to reveal and emphasize implied harmonious life forms. Together with environmental psychology, ecopsychology, ecohealth, deep ecology and some other established scientific fields or forms of social activism, ecotherapy and eco-arts therapies belong to the environmentalist movement.
