Book Launch October 2012: "Engaging With Climate Change: Psychoanalytic and Interdisciplinary Perspectives" edited by Sally Weintrobe

Published by the New Library of Psychoanalysis in its Beyond the Couch series

Engaging With Climate Change: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (16-17 October 2010)

Session 1: Great Expectations: Some psychic consequences of the discovery of personal ecological debt

Presentation by Rosemary Randall
Discussed by Bob Ward and Margaret Rustin

Session 2: The myth of apathy

Presentation by Renee Lertzman
Discussed by Erik Bichard and Irma Brenman Pick
 

Session 3: Different structures of feeling in relation to the natural world

Presentation by Michael Rustin
Discussed by Ted Benton and Jon Alexander
 

Session 4: Unconscious obstacles to caring for the planet

Presentation by John Keene
Discussed by Michael Brearley and Bob Hinshelwood
 

Session 5: On the love of nature and on human nature

Presentation by Sally Weintrobe
Discussed by Mike Hannis and Tom Crompton
 

Session 6: Climate change denial in a perverse culture

Presentation by Paul Hoggett
Discussed by John Steiner and Stanley Cohen