AN ONLINE CONFERENCE SPONSORED BY THE MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE SÁNDOR FERENCZI CENTER AT THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH

As we confront the terrifying threat of climate change, the field of psychoanalysis has much to offer. Psychoanalysis can help uncover unconscious aspects of our resistances as we mourn current and impending losses, process distress and trauma and face the cultural and political challenges of climate injustice. This online conference gathers together analytic writers and clinicians along with a youth climate activist who brings the perspective of the next generation of environmental stewards. We hope to stimulate thought and discussion, inspire a greater sensitivity to this issue in the consulting room and foster inspiration for climate activism.

SPEAKERS
Elizabeth Allured, PsyD
Vic Barrett, Activist
Daniel Gaztambide, PsyD
Katie Gentile, PhD
Wendy Greenspun, PhD
Renee Lertzman, PhD
Robert Jay Lifton, MD
Robert Stolorow, PhD
Lise Van Susteren, MD

Session I: Saturday, December 5, 2020: 1pm to 4:30pm EST

Lise Van Susteren, MD
TBA

Robert Jay Lifton, MD
Climate Change and Witnessing Professionals

Renee Lertzman, PhD
TBA

Daniel Gaztambide, PsyD
Afropessimism, Climate Change, and “The End”: Puerto Rican Reflections on anti-Blackness and Ecological Crisis

Session II: Saturday, December 12, 2020: 1pm to 4:30pm EST

Robert Stolorow, PhD
Planet Earth: Crumbling Metaphysical Illusion

Clinical Panel:

Wendy Greenspun, PhD
Frozen in Trauma on a Warming Planet: A Relational Reckoning with Climate Distress

Elizabeth Allured, PsyD
The Illusion of a Future: Adolescents Face Smoke and Mirrors with a Good Enough and Bad Enough Eco-Analyst

Katie Gentile, PhD
TBA

Vic Barrett, Youth Climate Activist
TBA

There is no greater
agony than bearing
an untold story
inside you.
-Zora Neale Hurston

Psychoanalysis is
in essence a cure
through love.
-Freud, 1906

Creativity requires
the courage to let
go of certainties.
-Erich Fromm

We are all much more
simply human
than otherwise.
-Harry Stack Sullivan

The goal is to
demystify the analyst
in the transference.
-Irwin Hirsch

Human beings can
alter their lives by
altering their
attitudes of mind.
-William James

Colloquiums

Seminars

Podcasts

Faculty Publications

Faculty Presentations

Events: Psychoanalysis and Climate Change

AN ONLINE CONFERENCE SPONSORED BY THE MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE SÁNDOR FERENCZI CENTER AT THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH

There is no greater agony than bearingan untold story inside you. -Zora Neale Hurston

Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love. -Freud, 1906

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. -Erich Fromm

We are all much more simply human than otherwise. -Harry Stack Sullivan

The goal is to demystify the analyst in the transference. -Irwin Hirsch