Sally Weintrobe

Sally Weintrobe is a psychoanalyst writing on the climate crisis.

She is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society (BPAS), a long-standing Member of the Climate Psychology Alliance, and she chairs the International Psychoanalytical 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.

Papers

(2018) Communicating psychoanalytic ideas about climate change. In: P. Garvey and K. Long (Eds.), The Klein Tradition. London: Routledge.

(2019) The new imagination. In: Trogal et al. (Eds.), Architecture and Resilience. London: Routledge.

(2019) Climate crisis: the moral dimension. In: D. Morgan (Ed.), The Unconscious in Social and Political Life. Bicester: Phoenix. (2019) The climate crisis. In Y. Stavrakakis (Ed.), Handbook of Psychoanalytic Political Theory. London: Routledge.

(2020) Moral injury in neoliberalism’s culture of uncare. Journal of Social Work Practice.

Books

(2012) ed. Engaging with Climate Change: Psychoanalytic and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, . London: Routledge.

(2021) Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis: Neoliberal Exceptionalism and the Culture of Uncare. London: Bloomsbury.

(2022) co-authored. Climate Psychology: a Matter of Life and Death. Bicester: Phoenix.