The core idea that we are only partially individual, but importantly also embedded in a web of relationship provides a way into understanding both the ecological challenge of our age and offering direction towards solution. These ideas are explored in detail in Chapter 11 of “Madness, Mystery and the Survival of God”, and in my presentation given at the following conference – where I was also involved in the inception and organisation, and the publication that came out of it.
Recent publications
- The Climate Crisis – a Question of Connection. Ethics column. Clinical Psychology Forum. 2024.
- Cognitive Therapists and the Climate Emergency: Using Emotions Positively. Article published in ‘CBT Today; official magazine of the BABCP. Vol 51. No. 2. May 2023. P30-31.
- Clarke, I (2025) Relationship, Self and the Climate Crisis. What can Psychotherapy offer? Psychotherapy Section Review. 71, pp 18-23.
Articles
- The New Human Story – First published in Greenspirit magazine and later, in slightly modified version, in Network, the Scientific and Medical Network journal in 2005.
- Four Ways to Meet the Ecological Challenge (after Matthew Fox): a psychologist’s perspective. Published in Greenspirit Journal in 2008.
- Twyford Down section from ‘Madness, Mystery and the Survival of God’.
Webinar
Healing our Relationship with the Earth by Using Emotions Positively
Confer: Landscapes of the Mind Conference 2005
25th-27th September at the Eden Project, Cornwall.
What we do to the Earth, we do to Ourselves
The ecological crisis is a crisis of relationship. Our abusive relationship with the earth, threatening the future of our species, also distorts us, causing pain, which we dull by addictions that fuel reckless consumption. Accepting and understanding that we are caught between self consciousness and embeddedness in relationship opens our capacity to expand in love not cut off in addiction.
Published in Journal of Holistic Healthcare, 6 19-22, (2009).