Engaging with Climate Change

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 led to this remarkable book.

• Rapley. Foreword. Weintrobe, Preface. Weintrobe, Introduction. Hamilton, What History Can Teach Us About Climate Change Denial. Weintrobe, The Difficult Problem Of Anxiety In Thinking About Climate Change. Lehtonen, Välimäki, Discussion. The Environmental Neurosis Of Modern Man: The Illusion Of Autonomy And The Real Dependence Denied. Mause-Hanke, Discussion. Hoggett, Climate Change Denial In A Perverse Culture. Cohen, Discussion. Steiner, Discussion. Hoggett, Reply. Randall, Great Expectations: The Psychodynamics of Ecological Debt. Rustin, Discussion. Ward, Discussion. Randall, Reply. Lertzman, The Myth Of Apathy: Psychoanalytic Explorations Of Environmental Subjectivity. Brenman-Pick, Discussion: Not I. Bichard, Discussion: How Sustainable Change Agents Can Adopt Psychoanalytic Perspectives On Climate Change. Keene,Unconscious Obstacles To Caring For The Planet: Facing Up To Human Nature. Brearley, Discussion. Hinshelwood, Discussion: Goods And Bads. Rustin, How Is Climate Change An Issue For Psychoanalysis ? Alexander, Discussion. Benton, Discussion. Rustin, Reply. Weintrobe, On The Love Of Nature And On Human Nature: Restoring Split Internal Landscapes. Hannis, Discussion: Nature, Consumption And Human Flourishing. Crompton, Discussion: On Love Of Nature And The Nature Of Love. Harrison, Climate Change, Uncertainty And Risk.

"Challenging, hopeful, timely ... Engaging with Climate Change contains perspectives about climate change by psychoanalytic writers, sociologists, social policy academics and others, with amplifying or challenging short responses, which makes for a deeper analysis." - Robert Tollemache, The Journal of Analytical Psychology, Vol. 58, 2013"This is a rich and fascinating book that makes for gripping reading. It brings together different disciplines and is therefore interesting for a wide range of readers. The book clearly explains psychoanalytic concepts, so that a reader not accustomed to this way of thinking can gain an understanding. At the same time, there are many accounts from the consulting room and from literature, so that it is also delightful reading for those train in the field." - Helen Skogstad, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, 27:2"This book is a robust contribution to a body of literature currently shaping our thinking about psychic processes in relation to climate change. The interdisciplinary nature of the book is reflected in the range of contributors, which includes sociologists, academics and psychoanalysts, and also in the diversity of content and stylistic form. The writing is incisive, lively and at times riveting, and themes are enriched and enlivened by research, literary refrences and anecodtal examples of lived experience." - Caroline Firzell, Therapy Today (September 2013)