This paper examines the overlaps between the ecological process of rewilding and the psychoanalytic process, and argues that both endeavour to recover depleted organisms to a healthier, authentic condition. Climate change is likened to the psychic illnesses which bring someone to analysis – to heal or ‘rewild’ that place which has been degraded or ravaged. Understandings of resistances towards the psychoanalytic process are utilised to unpack key resistances against rewilding projects. To show how rewilding can be understood as a human phenomenon, previous psychoanalytic approaches to environmental issues are reviewed to showcase existing insights surrounding our relation, or lack of relation, to nature. After outlining what rewilding means in practical, ecological terms within the British context and the public resistance it encountered, I will then explore the powerful symbolic potential of the wild. The genre of nature writing is offered as an example of this, whereby similar dynamics to the psychoanalytic process can be seen through personal transformation via encounters with the wild and uncensored. I argue that the term ‘rewilding’ encapsulates what psychoanalysis achieves, namely: engaging with (inner) wilderness, initiating breakdowns of the familiar, and ultimately creating space for the breakthrough of new life.