With Climate in Mind: Psychoanalysts on Climate Breakdown

Editor : Sally Weintrobe, Editor : Lynne Zeavin

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With Climate in Mind: Psychoanalysts on Climate Breakdown

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Publisher : Routledge
Published : December 2025
Cover : Paperback
Pages : 226
Category :
Forthcoming
Category 2 :
Psychoanalysis
Catalogue No : 98332
ISBN 13 : 9781041063384
ISBN 10 : 1041063385

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This groundbreaking book enriches and expands psychoanalytic theory and method as it applies to the climate.

It embeds psychoanalysis in environmental and cultural awareness; restores the importance Freud gave to external reality and its mental representations; introduces an integrative concept of climate; and, with its attention to clinical detail, offers steppingstones to practitioners seeking to understand clinical material in which phantasies involving nature, culture and the familial are intertwined. In four parts (Clinical, Theory, Nature, and Research), its authors are psychoanalysts from across the globe.

With Climate in Mind is essential reading for psychoanalysts in practice and in training, the psychotherapy profession, as well as for other professionals engaged with what climate breakdown in a culture of uncare means today.

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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

Acknowledgements
List of Contributors

Introduction
Sally Weintrobe and Lynne Zeavin

Part I - Mainly Clinical
1. Keeping the Ecological Catastrophe in Mind
Delaram Habibi-Kohlen

2. Coming Alive in Relation to the Natural World: A Clinical Account
Lynne Zeavin

3. The Colossal Divide: Transference – Countertransference Crossfire
Karyn Todes

4. The Psychoanalyst’s Awareness of Climate Trauma in the Clinical Situation
Sally Weintrobe

5. Reflections on Plastic in the Sea and Other Transformations: A Significant Dream
Alfredo Lombardozzi

6. Do Humans Really Want to Survive?
Don Moss

Part II - Mainly Theory
7. Unconscious Processes in Relation to the Environmental Crisis
Harold Searles

8. What is Psychoanalytical Enlightenment Today?: A Culture of Care as a Response to the Individual’s Violability in the Face of the Climate Crisis
Christine Bauriedl-Schmidt, Markus Fellner, Monika Krimmer, and
Hans-Jürgen Wirth

9. Living in Climate Crisis: A Postcolonial Psychoanalytical Viewpoint
Maria Luisa Gastal

10. Stretching Horizons: Tightening Links Between Human and Non-Human, to stay in the World
Maria Luisa Gastal

11. Necropolitics
Lynne Zeavin

Part III - Mainly Nature
12. Trees and other Psychoanalytic Matters
Lindsay L. Clarkson

13. On Healing Split Internal Landscapes
Sally Weintrobe

14. I am the River ...
Pushpa Misra

15. Out of Paradise: The Future of an Ecological Disillusionment
Luc Magnenat

Part IV - Research
16. Development, Ambivalence, and Containment: Through the Himalayan Lens
Pushpa Misra and Jhelum Podder

About the Editor(s)

Sally Weintrobe, a practising psychoanalyst, is a Fellow of the Institute of Psychoanalysis in London. She sees a psychoanalytic approach as a vital part of understanding how to engage people about the seriousness of climate change and how to understand current levels of denial. She has written and lectured widely on these subjects and on our relationship with nature. Her commitment to fostering interdisciplinary exchange with other human scientists about engaging with climate change has resulted in the book Engaging with Climate Change.

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Dr. Lynne Zeavin is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalst in full-time practice in New York City. She is a training and supervising analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. An associate editor of JAPA, she has written on a variety of topics exploring the status of the object in contemporary psychoanalytic theory.

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