Ecotherapy
A Field Guide
Editors: David Key and Keith Tudor
Ecotherapy: A Field Guide presents an extensive review of the field of ecotherapy which unearths a number of ambiguities in the way this therapy is understood and described. The review explores six themes derived from a critical analysis of the findings: human and nature; therapy and therapeutic; wilderness and wild; physical and meta-physical; culture and indigeneity; and the skin-bound self and the ecological Self. Throughout their exploration, the authors privilege traditions which predate the modern interest in this subject. Finally, they propose a new metatheory for ecotherapy practice that aims to bring some cohesion to the field, to honour its heritage and support its future development. Ultimately, the guide argues that great care should be taken in how ecotherapy is practiced and described, as many of the terms currently being used are culturally inappropriate and therapeutically counterproductive.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
David Key has designed and delivered outdoor programmes for psychological wellbeing and sustainability to a wide diversity of organisations and individuals for nearly 30 years. He has also taught, supervised and researched extensively in the academic sector. He is published in several languages, including with Karnac.
Keith Tudor is an Associate Professor at AUT University, Auckland, where he is also the Head of the Department of Psychotherapy and Counselling. He is a Certified Transactional Analyst and a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst and a Provisional Member of the New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists. He is the series editor of Advancing Theory in Therapy, the editor of Psychotherapy and Politics International, and the co-editor of Ata: Journal of Psychotherapy Aotearoa New Zealand. He is also the author/editor of over 250 publications, including 12 books, the latest of which, The Turning Tide, is concerned with pluralism and partnership in psychotherapy in Aotearoa New Zealand. He has a private practice in West Auckland.
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