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With Climate in Mind: Psychoanalysts on Climate Breakdown

Editor : Sally Weintrobe, Editor : Lynne Zeavin

Reviews and Endorsements

An eminently important book that illustrates the expanded scope of psychoanalytic thought and action when nature is recognised as a primary psychic object alongside the primary parental objects of humans. With an integrative concept of climate in mind, we psychoanalysts can no longer keep separated the intimate familial climate from the physical climate and the wider social climate. This has fundamental consequences for the form and content of psychoanalytic interpretations: the examination of the unconscious and conscious meaning of all climatic themes requires our attention, including the concern for the preservation of nature and its representation in the individual psyche. This stirring, lucid, and evocative book emphasises the social responsibility of psychoanalysis, and that deserves many readers because it convincingly conveys the urgency of psychoanalytically contributing to the transformation of the currently widespread culture of uncare into a more lively culture of care.
Dr. med. Heribert Blass, President International Psychoanalytical Association

At last, as this volume reveals, psychoanalysts across the globe are waking up to the promptings of nature and climate. Not just an ethical imperative, its contributors also demonstrate how this shifting orientation enriches psychoanalytic theory and practice, not least by deepening our understanding of key aspects of the human condition such as omnipotence, splitting, suffering, love and reparation.
Professor Emeritus Paul Hoggett, Co-Founder Climate Psychology Alliance

As a scientist and ecologist watching what is happening to our natural environments, I have always wondered why so many humans show such little respect for Nature. I am now beginning to understand why. This collection of essays provides vital insights and clarifications into the core causes of human behavior with regards to Nature and the Earth. The contributors provide an impressive array of perspectives to expand our comprehension, and hopefully to provide remedies, to the growing disjunct in the 21st Century between our human interior world and the external reality of Nature, climate, and planet. It is a must read for psychoanalysts, scientists, and even the general public, who are struggling to understand this disjunction.
W. John Kress, Ph.D., Distinguished Scientist and Curator Emeritus, National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution