Paul Maiteny is an integrative and transpersonal psychotherapist, anthropologist and ecologist with 25 years working in ecological education, originally as a ranger. Since 1996, he has taught and written courses for the MSc Education for Sustainability, London South Bank University. He has held research posts at Oxford University, the Grubb Institute of Behavioural Studies, the Open University and the University College London. He has researched psycho-emotional and cultural dimensions of ecological breakdown, contributing writings on this work to The Psychotherapist (Winter 2008/9), Handbook of Sustainability Literacy (Stibbe, Ed., in press), and UNESCO's Encyclopaedia of Life-Support Systems.