Being a therapist in a time of climate breakdown

This review of the new anthology, Being a Therapist in a Time of Climate Breakdown (2024), identifies its broad relevance for psychotherapeutic practice. The book is an urgent call to bring climate justice, political justice and social justice into the therapeutic arena. The timely publication spans intellectual discourse, research, paradigmatic positionality, applications in practice and lived experience, moving with a tide towards delivering therapeutic support as a form of resistance at a time when our secure social, political and environmental bases are crumbling. It is an important contribution to psychotherapeutic discourse that troubles traditional Western notions of subjectivity and mental health interventions, bringing the issues of climate breakdown to the centre of ideas about subjectivity and emotional wellbeing. Overall, this book challenges us to think about our own responsiveness to mental health and provides a springboard to think about bringing our theory, practice and research into the 21st century.