Listening for an Ecological Self.

This article is an inquiry into how analysts and psychotherapists can respond to the environmental crisis within the context of the analytic process. It addresses a perspective on individual and cultural defenses that separate us from a relational context within the matrix of life. A view is presented that regards humans as integral with the natural world, emphasizing the wild nature of psyche, embodiment, and the analytic process as a way of learning to engage this wildness. Building on Thomas Berry's idea that hope for our future lies in our human participation in the dream of the earth, case vignettes introduce the truth telling of the imaginal, proposing that we listen for how dreaming unfolds within one's self, between one's self and another, and between ourselves and the earth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]