Depth Psychology and Climate Change

The Green Book
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-23717-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Depth Psychology and Climate Change offers a sensitive and insightful look at how ideas from depth psychology can move us beyond psychological overwhelm when facing the ecological disaster of climate change and its denial. Integrating ideas from disciplines including anthropology, politics, spirituality, mythology and philosophy, contributors consider how climate change affects psychological well-being and how we can place hope and radical uncertainty alongside rage and despair.

The book explores symbols of transformation, myths and futures; and is structured to encourage regular reflection. Each contributor brings their own perspective – green politics, change and loss, climate change denial, consumerism and our connection to nature – suggesting responses to mental suffering arising from an unstable and uncertain international outlook. They examine how subsequent changes in consciousness can develop.

This book will be essential reading for analytical psychologists, Jungian analysts and psychotherapists, as well as academics and students of Jungian and post-Jungian studies. It will also be of great interest to academics and students of the politics and policy of climate change, anthropology, myth and symbolism and ecopsychology, and to anyone seeking a new perspective on the climate emergency.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mathers, Dale

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (C.G. Jung)
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Pädagogische Psychologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures Acknowledgements About the Authors 'There Will Come a Time' Foreword Introduction Part 1: Things as they are 1. An open letter to Greta Thunberg 2. Finding the eye of the storm 3. An anthropology of climate change deniers 4. Taking the Green Agenda out of the Margins: psychological strategies Part 2: Images and imagination 5. Cultural crisis: an image for our time 6. The Golem: an image for our time 7. Imagining Earth Part 3: Symbols of transformation 8. Engaging The Green Man, breaking our spell of enchantment 9. At war with the natural world: nature as Other 10. Our Connection with Animals and the Universe: Psychology, Symbols, Spirituality and the New Physics Part 4: Myths and futures 11. Time, Intuition and Imagination 12. 21st-century unconscious: Altered states, oracles and intelligences 13. Persephone’s Suicide 14. 'The Singing, Ringing tree' Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Dale Mathers is a Member of the Association of Jungian Analysts, London, UK.