INTRODUCTION

Ecobiopsychology is a new methodological dicipline scientifically dealing with the relationship between man and his surrounding environment. Man is the ultimate result of a development that has inseparably tied together the mineral, the vegetal and the animal kingdoms, in a systemic-complex organisation process. Starting from this evolutionary assumption, Ecobiopsychology intends to go deep into man's possibility to consciously revisit the archetypal aspects of life, sedimented in the body as instincts and traceable in the psyche as symbolic images. The Weltanschauung Echobiopsychology tends to, is not the one dominated by a pattern of casual relation, by which all that concerns nature and man is merely reduced to sign and semantics; it can be rather defined as a holistic approach, which endeavours to join harmoniously the conclusions accomplished by physical and biological knowledge with those of human sciences. Such a wide programme requires, of course, the integration of a great number of disciplines, which is made possible by means of a correct use of the analogic and symbolic thought. Through symbolical language and thanks to the comprehension of the analogic significance of shapes, colours, images, in short, of all that surrounds us, it is possible to go back to the archetypes present in man. We will be thus enabled to recognise the plot of the totality of the world (Unus Mundus), and therefore to perceive the sacred sense of existence. Through these assumptions, ANEB operates as a scientific non-profit making association, and gathers scholars from various scientific fields, ranging from Psychology and Psychoanalysis to Literature and Philosophy, from Arts and Aesthetics to Mythology and History of Religions, from Economics and Social Sciences to Biology and Physics. The aim of this association is, therefore, to recover a common approach to the world and man based on analogy, a "circular logic" thanks to which both the psychosomatic aspects of the living and the synchronic events of the becoming are being linked together. In this prospect, ANEB organises popular seminars starting from the study of psychosomatic functions interpreted through a phylogenetic point of view. Exhaustive special courses are also arranged to investigate thoroughly and elaborate new therapeutic strategies.