Based on the thought of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, I propose here a phenomenological understanding of psychopathology as mutually constituted along with ecology. I begin by describing the idea of multiple contours or a mundane understanding of psychopathology. I then consider ecology as part of these multiple contours. Finally I discuss how important it is for psychopathology to recognize its close link with ecology, as a way of overcoming the current epidemic of mental pathologies that afflict the contemporary world.
Psychopathology; ecology; mundane; Merleau-Ponty