“This is an Emergency” - Proposals to a collective response to the climate crisis

Climate change is no longer a hypotheticalargument but a reality that threatens the existence of human and other-than-human life on the planet. With that information in mind, can we afford to keep practising psychotherapy with a focus on the individual and their personal needs, or do we need to radically question the role of psychotherapy in its lack of relationship to the more-than-human world? In this article, originally published in the British Gestald Journey Vol 28, 2019, Steffi Bednarek investigates where aspects of Gestalt psychotherapy may be too closely aligned with the capitalist paradigm, that risks costing us the Earth.