PSYCHE, BODY AND ENVIRONMENT: SELF-INTEGRATIONS IN TIMES OF CLIMATE CHANGE

Abstract

Climate change is the most obvious expression of the socio-environmental crisis that is intensifying worldwide. The emergence of this phenomenon coincides with the emergence of a psychological distress condition called eco-anxiety. To deal with this context involving the dissociation between human beings and nature, different areas of knowledge point to the importance of integration between psyche, body and environment, an element that finds correspondence in the Jungian perspective of the self as a whole. Neuroscience, philosophy, ecology, somatic education and ecopsychology are among the fields that address the integrated nature of the human being based on binomials such as psyche-body, body-environment, psyche-environment. The Jungian perspective of the self as a psyche-body-environment triad dialogues with these areas of knowledge and offers an additional reference for understanding the relationship between society and the climate crisis. At the same time, it finds in the connection with the new field of ecosomatics the possibility of a clinic especially sensitive to the challenge of climate change, through a psychotherapeutic approach that dialogues with the human-nature dissociation not only through words.