Psychotherapy and Global Transformation

Abstract

This article very briefly reviews the past 100 years of psychotherapy and then looks forward to the next 100 years. It suggests that while psychotherapy can continue to aspire to save the planet “one person at a time”, it must also scale up its efforts to work therapeutically with larger numbers of people on a larger playing field which includes all of the urgent social, political, cultural and ecological issues of this new century. A new politics of indigeneity is needed which recognizes locality and localism, is deeply respectful of the unique contribution and leadership of indigenous and First Nations people and peoples, but is also bold enough to claim that we are all indigenous to the universe and, therefore, share responsibility to learn how to be better stewards and caretakers of ourselves and each other on the Garden Planet.