What can psychoanalysis offer to the on-going discussion about the state of the planet?
The Climate Emergency: Psychoanalytic Perspectives is an international conference taking place online on Saturday 23 and 30 May 2020.
Speakers: Sally Weintrobe, Joseph Dodds, Renée Lertzman, David Morgan, Anouchka Grose, plus Winners of the Young Poets Network Challenge: Climate Crisis and You
Please do use the comments section to discuss and share ideas.
Selected resources (articles, podcasts, talks):
- ‘Ecological Madness’, 1992 conference papers by Susie Orbach, Bob Hinshelwood, Barry Richards, Andrew Samuels and Ivan Ward, are published in The British Journal of Psychotherapy, 1993, Vol.10, No. 2.
- The full text of Ivan Ward’s introduction to the 1992 conference papers can be downloaded here.
- Joseph Dodds, Elemental Catastrophe: Ecopsychoanalysis and the viral uncanny of covid-19 for Stillpoint Digital Magazine
- Anouchka Grose, How the climate emergency could lead to a mental health crisis for The Guardian, August 2019
- Sally Weintrobe on Frontier Psychoanalyst: Climate Change (January 2016) podcast presented by David Morgan
Books:
- Joseph Dodds, Psychoanalysis and Ecology at the Edge of Chaos, 2011
- Sally Weintrobe (ed.), Engaging with Climate Change: Psychoanalytic and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2012
- Renée Lertzman, Environmental Melancholia: Psychoanalytic Dimensions of Engagement, 2015
- Anouchka Grose, From Anxiety to Zoolander: Notes on Psychoanalysis, 2017
- David Morgan (ed.), The Unconscious in Social and Political Life, 2019
- Paul Hoggett (ed.), Climate Psychology: On Indifference to Disaster, 2019
- Mary-Jayne Rust (ed.), Vital Signs: Psychological Responses to Ecological Crisis, 2012
- David Levine, Matthew Bowker, The Destroyed World and the Guilty Self, 2019
Comments
Thank you to Sally, Joseph and Renée for presenting such a stimulating set of papers. I look forward to Sally’s new book, later this year.
So, some practical questions: Sally, is there a link to Irma Brenman Pick’s description of the tragic position? (and thank you for your explanation here).
Is there available somewhere the papers from the Freud Museum’s 1992 conference?
Thank you again to the Freud Museum. I look forward to the second day of the conference.
Hi Deborah,
The papers from the 1992 conference, by Susie Orbach, Bob Hinshelwood, Barry Richards, Andrew Samuels and Ivan Ward, are published in The British Journal of Psychotherapy, 1993, Vol.10, No. 2. If you have trouble accessing/finding them, you can send an email to [email protected] and we’ll be able to help.
This conference was wonderful. Thank you.
I’d like to read the poems which moved me so much.
Is the text available please?
Hi Trudi, the poems are available here: https://ypn.poetrysociety.org.uk/workshop/the-climate-crisis-and-you-a-new-poetry-challenge/
You can find the link to each poem on the left side of the webpage.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent and very containing conference. I feel less worried knowing that the climate crisis is being thought about in the psychoanalytic community. Thank you.