Being a therapist in a time of climate breakdown

Frizell, Caroline. 2025. Being a therapist in a time of climate breakdown. Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy: An International Journal for Theory, Research and Practice, ISSN 1743-2979 [Article] (In Press)

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Abstract or Description

This review of the new anthology, Being a Therapist in a Time of Climate Breakdown (2024), identifies its broad relevance for psychotherapeutic practice. The book is an urgent call to bring climate justice, political justice and social justice into the therapeutic arena. The timely publication spans intellectual discourse, research, paradigmatic positionality, applications in practice and lived experience, moving with a tide towards delivering therapeutic support as a form of resistance at a time when our secure social, political and environmental bases are crumbling. It is an important contribution to psychotherapeutic discourse that troubles traditional Western notions of subjectivity and mental health interventions, bringing the issues of climate breakdown to the centre of ideas about subjectivity and emotional wellbeing. Overall, this book challenges us to think about our own responsiveness to mental health and provides a springboard to think about bringing our theory, practice and research into the 21st century.

Item Type:

Article

Identification Number (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1080/17432979.2025.2461795

Keywords:

climate breakdown, psychotherapy, mental health, wellbeing, ecopsychotherapy

Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Social, Therapeutic & Community Engagement (STaCS)
Social, Therapeutic & Community Engagement (STaCS) > Centre for Community Engagement Research

Dates:

DateEvent
26 January 2025Accepted
15 February 2025Published Online

Item ID:

38247

Date Deposited:

31 Jan 2025 17:16

Last Modified:

28 Feb 2025 15:24

Peer Reviewed:

Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.

URI:

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/38247

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