"The fictional character "Heinz Droz" is used as a mirror that reflects, more or less, depending on our unique existential situation, the ecopsychological alienation and singularized semiotic sub-realities of the industrialized man and woman.  Purposely described as a fictional character, nevertheless, Heinz Droz stands for an easily confirmable and almost inescapable reality made worse by self-denial, materialistic, consumer-oriented, pernicious, spirit-empty, and pervasive umwelten.  Successful ecopsychological therapy or counseling includes the clarity of having understood self-denial for what it does: over-protects the Ego and prevents it from maturing.  An ecopsychologically successful therapy or counseling goes beyond that: it contradicts, critiques, challenges, and reforms the orthodoxy of and the typical assumptions of both clients and therapists. Ecopsychologically successful practices are eco-centric, cultural transcending, social activism, Paleo-anthropology, community reformist, and deliberate peaceful resistance against seemingly impossible societal odds.  These progressive, communal, and self-informing practices are also Deep Ecological.  Ecopsychological practice is fighting sub-realities with new and old mythologies.  But without meeting Heinz Droz, and seeing "him" as a fatality and a caricature of ecopsychological alienation, our therapy cannot commence."

 
 

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