6:30 - 8:30PM EST
$50 Regular Admission and $30 Student
Elizabeth Allured, Psy.D. and Wendy Greenspun, Ph.D.
*This talk provides 2 hours of continuing education credits for LCSWs, LMSWs, LPs, and licensed psychologists.
About: This workshop will focus on how psychoanalytic clinicians can begin to engage with emerging climate distress and grief as well as defenses against facing the Climate and Environmental Emergency (CEE). We will trace some of the ways psychoanalysis has engaged this subject, from Searles (1972) to most recently Weintrobe and others (2013; 2021). We will examine embedded individual, intergenerational, communal, and Earth-based traumas, including systemic racism and other forms of dominance and exploitation. We will help clinicians identify their own emotional reactions to the CEE and will provide clinical examples for working with climate distress and disavowal. We will also discuss ways to foster emotional resilience, including a process of “re-earthing.”