Anastasios Gaitanidis is a Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, Director of Studies, Author, Theory Editor, and Supervisor. In addition to his clinical work as a Psychoanalyst, Anastasios held appointments as a Senior Lecturer and Director of Studies at Regent’s University London and University of Roehampton, UK. Anastasios is an Author who published numerous journal articles and edited books over the years, with a recent book publication entitled The Sublime in Everyday Life: Psychoanalytic and Aesthetic Perspectives. His recent work focuses on the intersection of psychological and political dimensions of cultural and environmental crisis.Alan Bainbridge is a Professor of Education at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, and a Visiting Reader in Education and Sustainability at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. He has an expansive view of education that ranges across ecology, psychology, politics, and sustainability. He uses broadly narrative-based research methods to work qualitatively; exploring the development of education professional practice, and the transformative nature of human/more-than-human relationships.Isabella Mighetto is a Counselling Psychologist based in Bristol. She works in a community mental health service in the NHS and has a small private practice. In her clinical and consultation work she seeks to encourage a deeper connection to the body, as well as connection to the natural world. She is an advocate for incorporating nature-based practices into healthcare settings. Her framework attends to sociopolitical, cultural, ancestral, and linguistic contexts, seeing the human as embedded in a much wider ecology.

• ContentsForeword Acknowledgements Introduction: Re-imagining a Sustainable and Flourishing Community of Nature Anastasios Gaitanidis, Alan Bainbridge, and Isabella Mighetto 1. Defining Wilderness: A Philosophical, Ecological, and Psychoanalytic Perspective Anastasios Gaitanidis 2. Giving and Receiving the Wild: Developing an Ecological Ethic of Attunement Anastasios Gaitanidis 3. Symbiosis Reciprocity: Human-Land Relationships and Entanglements Isabella Mighetto 4. Dreams, Wilderness and the Sacred Alan Bainbridge 5. Ecosocialism: Learning to Live Well with the World Alan Bainbridge 6. Place-making in Precarity: On Domesticity and Nomadism Isabella Mighetto 7. Wilding Education: From Monoculture to Messy Margins Alan Bainbridge 8. Art as Resistance, Empathy, and Reimagination: Overcoming Ecological Crises Anastasios Gaitanidis Gathering at the Threshold : The Beginning, Not the Conclusion Anastasios Gaitanidis, Isabella Mighetto, and Alan Bainbridge Index

"Wilderness and Ecopsychology is a beautiful and insightful work: personal yet scholarly, urgent yet expansive. Its authors engage in what they call a “wild conversation” amongst themselves in which the natural world, too, is an active interlocutor, and which the reader is encouraged to join. As the talk ranges freely from ecology to psychoanalysis, pedagogy to politics, art and literature to philosophy, and much else besides, it enacts its main argument: that we need to open up in mind and body to a dynamic, unpredictable and desirous interweaving with nature. For that way lies true wellbeing for us and the world."Dr Simon Richard Wilson, Senior Lecturer in Theology/Religion, Philosophy and Ethics, Christ Church University "Drawing from multi- and interdisciplinary perspectives, e.g., psychoanalysis, phenomenology and political ecology, the authors take an important critical position on the issues of both planetary and human psychological health. They argue that the characteristics of modern, socio-political living create an alienation of humans from the world which sustains them. To counteract the illusion of separateness (for that’s what it is) requires conditions for genuine encounters with the other, not just welcoming the familiar, but letting the world enter into oneself and being changed by it. This volume has a vital and urgent message: in order to effect difference, we must find a way of being different and that will entail rediscovery of our human wildness." Joe Hinds, Senior Lecturer in Psychotherapy and Counselling, University of Greenwich. Co-Author of Ecotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice