Trauma to the Earth and Unearthed Trauma:

An Eco-Psychoanalytic Engagement with Climate Distress

Date/Time: September 18, 2022, 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. (EST)

Location: Online, live via Zoom

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Click HERE To Register (Registration will close 48 hours prior to the start of the event.)

3 CEUs available for New York State Psychologists, Social Workers LMFT and LMHC

Fees

$75.00 – General Admission

$50.00 – Derner Alum, Adelphi faculty/clinical supervisor, Non-Adelphi psychoanalytic Candidate/student

$25.00 – Derner student/Postgraduate candidate

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This workshop will focus on how psychoanalytic clinicians can begin to engage with the enormity of the human-caused, Earth-based trauma of the Climate and Environmental Emergency (CEE).

This trauma has been increasingly resulting in high levels of climate distress and grief or, conversely, the disavowal or “unthought known” of the impacts. We will trace some of the ways psychoanalysis has engaged this subject, beginning with Searles (1960) in his writings on the nonhuman world to most recently the broader-based ideas of Weintrobe (2013; 2021) and others. 

Speakers

Elizabeth Allured, Psy.D.

Dr Allured is the Co-President, Secretary & Board of Directors of the Climate Psychology Alliance of North America. She is a psychologist/psychoanalyst practicing in Port Washington, New York. She is on the teaching faculty at the Suffolk Institute, and at Adelphi University’s postgraduate programs in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. She has published papers on the relationship between mental health and the nonhuman environment, and has been presenting ideas about this relationship at international conferences since 2007.

Wendy Greenspun, Ph.D.

Dr. Greenspun is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Climate Psychology Alliance- North America and is a consultant at the Climate School of Columbia University. She is faculty and supervisor at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis, at the Adelphi University Postgraduate Program in Marriage and Couples Therapy and on faculty at the William Alanson White Couple Therapy Training and Education Program. She has presented papers and workshops nationally and internationally on climate psychology and provides workshops and courses for mental health professionals on ways to work with climate distress and grief. She also provides workshops on building emotional resilience for climate activists and university students and has run group forums (climate cafes) for processing climate distress. She is in private practice and specializes in couples therapy and in climate-aware therapy in New York City.

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Disclaimer statement: This continuing education seminar, seminar instructor/s, and the Postgraduate Programs as the seminar’s sponsor, receive no commercial support for the content of instruction (e.g., research grants funding research findings etc.), or benefit for endorsement of products (e.g., books, training, drugs, etc.) that are known to present a conflict of interest. 

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This workshop will focus on how psychoanalytic clinicians can begin to engage with the enormity of the human-caused, Earth-based trauma of the Climate and Environmental Emergency (CEE). This trauma has been increasingly resulting in high levels of climate distress and grief or, conversely, the disavowal or “unthought known” of the impacts. We will trace some of the ways psychoanalysis has engaged this subject, beginning with Searles (1960) in his writings on the nonhuman world to most recently the broader-based ideas of Weintrobe (2013; 2021) and others. This is an expanded version of our workshop given through the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center, March 2022