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

Abstract

Climate change is the most evident expression of the socio-environmental crisis that is intensifying around the world. The emergence of this phenomenon coincides with the emergence of a condition of psychic suffering called ecoanxiety. To deal with this context that involves the dissociation between human beings and nature, different areas of knowledge point to the importance of the integration between psyche, body and environment, an element that finds correspondence in the Jungian perspective of the self as a totality. Neuroscience, philosophy, ecology, somatic education and ecopsychology are among the fields that address the integrated character of the human being from 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 that is especially sensitive to the challenge of climate change, through a psychotherapeutic approach that dialogues with the human-nature dissociation not only through words.

DOI:https://doi.org/10.56238/sevened2024.031-060