Climate Psychology

Wendy Hollway is Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Honorary Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. She co-founded the UK psycho-social network, has been active in the European psycho-social network, and co-edits the Palgrave 'Studies in the Psychosocial' series. She edits a monthly Digest for Climate Psychology Alliance.Her books include:Changing the Subject: Psychology, Social Regulation and Subjectivity (1984/1998), with J. Henriques, C. Urwin, C. Venn, and V. Walkerdine. London: Routledge.Doing Qualitative Research Differently: Free Association, Narrative and the Interview Method (2000/2013), with Tony Jefferson. New York: Sage.Knowing Mothers: Researching Maternal Identity Change (2015). London: Palgrave Macmillan.Paul Hoggett is a psychoanalytical psychotherapist and a training therapist at the Severnside Institute for Psychotherapy. He is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the University of the West of England, Bristol, where he co-founded the Centre for Psycho-Social Studies. His research focused on the emotional dynamics of race, class, community, and governance. With Adrian Tait he set up the Climate Psychology Alliance in 2012. In 2019, Paul edited a collection of CPA research papers Climate Psychology: On Indifference to Disaster (Palgrave Macmillan).His previous books include:Partisans in an Uncertain World: The Psychoanalysis of Engagement (1992). London: Free Association Books.Politics, Identity and Emotion (2009). Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.Chris Robertson has been a psychotherapist and trainer since 1978. He was the co-creator of Borderlands and the Wisdom of Uncertainty, which in 1989 became the subject of a BBC documentary. In 1988, he co-founded Re-Vision, an integrative and transpersonal psychotherapy training with an ecopsychology component. He retired from Re-Vision in 2018. He was chair of the Climate Psychology Alliance, with which he still works.Recent publications include:Culture crisis: a loss of soul. In: D. Mathers (Ed.), Depth Psychology and Climate Change (2020). London: Routledge.Climate psychology: a big idea (with Paul Hoggett). In: H. Flynn (Ed.), Four Go in Search of Big Ideas (2018). London: Social Liberal Forum.Transformation in Troubled Times (co-editor) (2018). London: Transpersonal Press.Climate change, despair and radical hope (co-editor). The Psychotherapist (2016).Sally Weintrobe has spent her professional life practising as a psychoanalyst. She is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytic Society (BPAS), a long-standing Member of the Climate Psychology Alliance, and she chairs the International Psychoanalytic Association’s Committee on Climate Change. She was formerly an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychoanalytic Studies at University College London, and a member of teaching staff at the Tavistock Clinic. Her publications on climate include:Engaging with Climate Change: Psychoanalytic and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, ed. (2012). London: Routledge.Communicating psychoanalytic ideas about climate change. In: P. Garvey and K. Long (Eds.), The Klein Tradition (2018). London: Routledge.The new imagination. In: Trogal et al. (Eds.), Architecture and Resilience (2019). London: Routledge.Climate crisis: the moral dimension. In: D. Morgan (Ed.), The Unconscious in Social and Political Life (2019). Bicester: Phoenix Publishing House.The climate crisis. In Y. Stavrakakis (Ed.), Handbook of Psychoanalytic Political Theory (2019). London: Routledge.Moral injury in neoliberalism’s culture of uncare. Journal of Social Work Practice (2020).Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis: Neoliberal Exceptionalism and the Culture of Uncare (2021). London: Bloomsbury.

‘This timely and important book comprises an investigation of the causes of the current climate crisis, common reactions to this existential threat and how therapists can help each other and their clients face reality and find a way forward. [...] I heartily recommend this engaging and well-written book’

• AcknowledgementsAbout the authorsChapter 1Introduction: a matter of life and deathWendy Hollway, Paul Hoggett, Chris Robertson, and Sally WeintrobeChapter 2Climate change: from denialism to nihilismPaul HoggettChapter 3How the light gets in: beyond psychology’s Modern individualWendy HollwayChapter 4Climate psychology at a cultural thresholdChris RobertsonChapter 5The new bold imagination needed to repair and expand the ecological selfSally WeintrobeChapter 6In the end is my beginningWendy Hollway, Paul Hoggett, Chris Robertson, and Sally WeintrobeIndex