With Climate in Mind: Psychoanalysts on Climate Breakdown (IPA in the Community)

This groundbreaking book enriches and expands psychoanalytic theory and method as it applies to the climate.

It embeds psychoanalysis within environmental and cultural awareness; restores the importance Freud placed on external reality and its mental representations; introduces an integrative concept of climate; and, with its attention to clinical detail, offers stepping stones for practitioners seeking to understand clinical material in which phantasies involving nature, culture, and family are intertwined. Presented in four parts – Clinical, Theory, Nature, and Research – its authors are psychoanalysts from across the world.

With Climate in Mind is essential reading for practising and training psychoanalysts, for those in the psychotherapy profession, and for other professionals engaged with what climate breakdown in a culture of carelessness means today.

Sally Weintrobe is Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society and has chaired the IPA Climate Committee. She won the IPA’s 2021 Community Award for her work on climate. Engaging with Climate Change (Routledge), which she edited, was short-listed in 2014 for the Gradiva Award for its contribution to psychoanalysis.

Lynne Zeavin is Training and Supervising Analyst of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and an associate editor of JAPA, the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Among her publications, she co-edited, with Don Moss, Hating, Abhorring and Wishing to Destroy (Routledge).