Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, Vol 43(1), Feb 2023, 3-15; doi:10.1037/teo0000218
Research on therapeutic environments is limited by the absence of theoretical considerations for an ethical ecology. This article aims to address some of those limitations by discussing some interdisciplinary possibilities in epistemology, ontology, and intersectionality as viable theoretical implications for conceiving therapeutic environments from an ethical ecological perspective. Some key issues are raised as potential impediments to an ethical ecology, namely instrumental relationships with nature, the human/nature dichotomy, and structural factors that mediate therapeutic relationships between people and environments. What this article aims at is an ethical understanding of the human relationship with nature by considering the cultural, social, and political implications of being-in-nature as a prerequisite for the conception of therapeutic environments. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)