CONFERENCE DECEMBER 5 AND 12, 2020 RESOURCES

ARTICLES FROM SOME OF THE PRESENTERS:

Robert Jay Lifton, “On Becoming Witnessing Professionals”, https://www.amacad.org/publication/becoming-witnessing-professionals

Robert Stolorow, “Planet Earth: Crumbling Metaphysical Illusion” PDF

Robert D. Stolorow and George E. Atwood, The Power of Phenomenology

 

SUGGESTED READINGS:

American Psychological Association 2017 Report- Mental Health and Our Changing Climate: https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2017/03/mental-health-climate.pdf

Bateson, G. (1972). Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution and Epistemology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Bateson, G. (1979). Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity. NY: E.P. Dutton.

Bednarek, S. (2018). How wide is the field: Gestalt therapy, capitalism and the natural world. British Gestalt Journal, 27(2), 8-17.

Curricular Guide for Environmental Justice 2015: https://www.cswe.org/Education-Resources/2015-Curricular-Guides/2015-Environmental-Justice-Guide-Web-Version.aspx

Davenport, L. (2017). Emotional Resilience in the Era of Climate Change. Philadelphia, PA: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

DeMocker, M. (2018). The Parent’s Guide to Climate Revolution.  New World Library: Novato, California.

Dopplt, B. (2016). Transformational Resilience: How Building Human Resilience to Climate Disruption can Safeguard Society and Increase Wellbeing. NY: Routledge.

Fleming, J.  (2007) The Calendar Effect.  Boston: American Meteorological Society.

Gaztambide, D. (2019). A People’s History of Psychoanalysis: From Freud to Liberation Psychology. NY: Lexington Books.

Hamilton, C. (2010). Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change. London: Earthscan.

Hawken, P. (Ed). (2017). Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming. New York: Penguin Books.

Kassouf, S. (2017). Psychoanalysis and climate change: Revisiting Searles’ The Nonhuman Environment, rediscovering Freud’s phylogenetic fantasy, and imagining a future. American Imago, 74(2), 141-171.

LaMothe, R. (2020). On being at home in the world: A psychoanalytic-political perspective on dwelling in the anthropocene era. Psychoanalytic Review, 107(2), 123-151.

Lertzman, R. (2015). Environmental Melancholia: Psychoanalytic Dimensions of Engagement. New York: Routledge.

Lifton, RJ. (2017). The Climate Swerve: Reflections on Mind, Hope and Survival. NY: The New Press.

Macy, J. and Brown, M. (2014). Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work that Reconnects. Gabriola Island, B.C., Canada: New Society Publishers.

Mann, M. (2016) The Madhouse Effect.  New York: Columbia University Press.

Marshall, G. (2014). Don’t Even Think About It: Why Our Brains are Wired to Ignore Climate Change. New York: Bloomsbury.

Mishan, J. (1996). Psychoanalysis and environmentalism: First thoughts. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy,10 (1): 59-70.

Orange, D. (2017). Climate Crisis, Psychoanalysis, and Radical Ethics. NY: Routledge.

Randall, R. (2009). Loss and climate change: The cost of parallel narratives. Ecopsychology, 1(3), 118-128.

Randall, R. (2015). In Time for Tomorrow: The Carbon Conversations Handbook (see also The Carbon Conversations Workbook and The Carbon Conversations Facilitator’s Guide. See rorandall.org/publications/ to purchase.

Rich, N. (2018). Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change.  New York Times, Aug. 1, 2018.  https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/01/magazine/climate-change-losing-earth.html

Roszak, R. (1992) The Voice of the Earth.  New York: Simon & Schuster.

Sabini, M. (Ed.) (2002). The Earth Has a Soul: C.G. Jung on Nature, Technology and Modern Life. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books.

Santostefano, S. (2004) Child Therapy in the Great Outdoors.  New Jersey: The Analytic Press.

Searles, H. (1960). The Nonhuman Environment in Normal Development and in Schizophrenia.  New York: International Universities Press.

Searles, H. (1972).  Unconscious processes in relation to the environmental crisis. The Psychoanalytic Review, 59 (3), 361-374.

Van Susteren, L. and Colino, S. (2020). Emotional Inflammation: Discover Your Triggers and Reclaim Your Equilibrium During Anxious Times. Boulder, CO: Sounds True.

Weintrobe, S. (Ed), Climate Change: Psychoanalytic and InterO.disciplinary Perspectives, pp. 33-47, NY: Routledge.

Wilson, E. (2016) Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life. New York: Liveright Publishing Co.

Woodbury, Z. (2019). Toward a new taxonomy of trauma. Ecopsychology, 11(1), 1-8.

 

WEBSITES/VIDEOS:

Global Weirding with Katharine Hayhoe (YouTube videos)

http://www.katharinehayhoe.com

Climate Scientists Reveal Their Fears For the Future (video): http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2016/s4692813.htm

 

IPCC Special Report on 1.5 C., 2018 (text of report) http://www.ipcc.ch/report/sr15/

 

Sustainable Activism: Randall and Hoggett interview with activists:

https://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/paul-hoggett-rosemary-randall/sustainable-activism-managing-hope-and-despair-in-social-movements

 

Hugh Montgomery : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UP_-Bvf5fU

Catherine Ingram: catherineingram.com/facingextinction/

 

ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS:

Citizens Climate Lobby

Extinction Rebellion

Greenpeace

NRDC (National Resource Defense Council)

350.org

The Environmental Defense Fund

The Nature Conservancy

The Sierra Club

Union of Concerned Scientists

WeAct

 

CLIMATE/PSYCHOLOGY INTERFACE ORGANIZATIONS:

Climate Psychology Alliance (climatepsychologyalliance.org)

Climate Psychology Alliance North American (climatepsycholog.us)

Climate Psychiatry Alliance (climatepsychiatry.org)

Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (climatecommunication.yale.edu)

 

PERSONAL ACTIONS YOU CAN TAKE:

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

EAT LESS/NO MEAT and DAIRY

FLY LESS

In NYC:

Sign up for renewable energy for your electricity:  https://www.coned.com/en/our-energy-future/renewable-energy-systems (350nyc recommends Clean Choice Energy)

Composting: https://www.grownyc.org/compost