Please see below for resources and on climate change & climate anxiety. To request any of the books or articles listed, email librarian Veronica Davis. We’d like to thank Delia Kostner, PhD, Rita Teusch, PhD, and Hannah Spector, PhD, MFA, for their invaluable help in creating this resource for the BPSI community.

Suggest a Resource

Breaching of Planetary Boundaries – Human Activity and the Breakdown of the Natural World

  • Abrams, D. (1997). The spell of the sensuous: Perception and language in a more-than-human world.
  • Hawken, P. (2021). Regeneration: Ending the climate crisis in one generation. Penguin Books.
  • Deer, J. (2020). Radical animism: Reading for the end of the world.
  • Bonneuil, C. & Fressoz, J. (2016). The shock of the Anthropocene. Verso Books.
  • Pope Francis (2015). Encyclical on climate change and inequality: On care for our common home. Melville House.
  • Ghosh, A. (2016). The great derangement: Climate change and the unthinkable. University of Chicago Press.
  • Hiss, T. (2021). Rescuing the planet: Protecting half the land to heal the earth.
  • Kellert, S. & Wilson, E.O. (1993). The biophilia hypothesis. Island Press.
  • Klein, N. (2015). This changes everything: Capitalism vs. the climate. Simon & Schuster.
  • Kimmerer, R.W. (2013). Braiding sweetgrass. Milkweed Press.
  • Kolbert, E. (2014). The sixth extinction: An unnatural history. Henry Holt.
  • Kolbert, E. (2021). Under a white sky: The nature of the future. Crown.
  • Lovelock, J. (2009). The vanishing face of gaia. Basic Books.
  • McKibben, B. (2021). Climate anxiety makes good sense: But in solidarity there’s some solace. New Yorker. Retrieved January 27, 2025, from https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/climate-anxiety-makes-good-sense
  • McKibben, B. (1989). The end of nature. Random House.
  • Nijhuis, M. (2022). Beloved beasts: Fighting for life in an age of extinction.
  • Nixon, R. (2013). Slow violence and the environmentalism of the poor. Harvard University Press.
  • Patterson, J. (2023). Adversity to advancement: 15 Climate impacts and 45 black-led pathways to climate justice. The Chisholm Legacy Project: Responsible Philanthropy.
  • Purdy, J. (2015). After nature: A politics for the Anthropocene. Harvard University Press.
  • Rush, E. (2017). Rising: Dispatches from the new American shore. Milkweed.
  • Simard, S. (2021). Finding the mother tree.
  • Williams, J. (2021). Climate change is racist: Race, privilege and the Struggle for climate justice. Icon Books.
  • Wilson, E.O. (2020). Half earth. Norton and Company.

  • Stockholm Resilience Center (2023). Planetary boundaries. https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/planetary-boundaries.html
  • Weintrobe, S. (2021). Psychological roots of the climate crisis: Neoliberal exceptionalism and the culture of uncare. Bloomsbury.
  • Weintrobe, S. (Ed.) (2013). Engaging with climate change: Psychoanalytic and interdisciplinary perspectives. Routledge.
  • Fong, B.Y. (2018). Death and mastery: Psychoanalytic drive theory and the subject of late capitalism. Columbia University Press.
  • Han, B. (2021). Capitalism and the death drive. Polity.
  • Schinaia, C. (2022). Psychoanalysis and ecology. Routledge.
  • Fromm, E. (1973). The anatomy of human destructiveness. Fawcett Crest.
  • Orange, D. (2017). Climate change, psychoanalysis, and radical ethics.
  • Allured, E. (2021). Belonging to an awakening: The analytic function of witnessing as applied to the climate emergency. In R.C. Coleman (Ed.), Belonging through a psychoanalytic lens. Routledge, pp. 108-116.
  • Bodnar, S., Paula, A., O’Neill, P., Alavi, S., Gamoran, J., Liaqat, A., Bitensky, D., Bi, H., Grella, E., Kiefer, M., Morenberg, L., O’Leary, C., Yadav, P., & Wasret, A. (2023). The Environment as an Object Relationship: A two-part study. Ecopsychology, 15(2), 110-118. DOI: 1089/eco.2022.0070
  • Dodds, J. (2019). Otto Fenichel and ecopsychoanalysis in the Anthropocene. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 16(2), 195-207.
  • Haseley, D. (2019). Climate change: Clinical considerations. International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 16(2), 109–15. DOI: 1002/aps.1617.
  • Karbelnig, A.M. (2024). Beyond climate defensiveness: The role of psychoanalysis in creating a sustainable future. The American Psychoanalyst, 58(1), 32-46.
  • Kassouf, S. (2024). Human among the more-than-human. Retrofitting Kohut for the Anthropocene. Psychoanalysis, Self, and Context, 19, 7-27.
  • Kassouf, S. (2017). Psychoanalysis and climate change; Revisiting Searles’ The Nonhuman Environment, revisiting Freud’s Phylogenic Fantasy, and imagining a future. American Imago, 74(2), 141-171.
  • Lewis J, & Haase E. (2020). Climate dialectics in psychotherapy: Holding open the space between abyss and advance. Psychodynamic Psychiatry, 48, 271-294. DOI:1521/pdos.2020.48.3.271
  • Miller, C., Clarkson, L., & Ross, D. (2022). The environmental crisis and the film First Reformed: Paths to paralysis and change. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 103, 395-412.
  • Orange, D. (2008). Radical hope: Ethics in the face of cultural devastation. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 25, 368–374.
  • Samuels, B. (2015). A psychoanalytic intervention to fight climate change: Reading This Changes Everything. Psychoanalysis Culture and Society, 20, 86–89. https://doi.org/10.1057/pcs.2015.5
  • Schinaia, C. (2019). Respect for the environment: Considerations on the ecological crisis. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 100(2), 272-286.
  • Searles, H. (1972). Unconscious processes in relation to the environmental crisis. Psychoanalytic Review. 59: 361–374.
  • Weintrobe, S. (2019). On climate change denial. International Psychoanalytical Association. https://www.ipa.world/IPA/en/News/News_articles_reviews/On_Climate_Change_Denial.aspx
  • Buzzell, L. & Chalquist, C., (Eds.). (2009). Ecotherapy: Healing with nature in mind. Sierra Club Books.
  • Marshall, G. (2014). Don’t even think about it: Why our brains are wired to ignore climate change. Bloomsbury Press.
  • Roszak, T., Gomes, M., and Kanner, A. (eds). (1995). Ecopsychology: Restoring the earth, healing the mind. Sierra.
  • Turtz, J. (2022). Psychoanalysis and Its significant role in the climate crisis. Manhattan Institute of Psychoanalysis. https://manhattanpsychoanalysis.com/blog-post/psychoanalysis-and-its-significant-role-in-the-climate-crisis/

  • Deer, J. (2020). Radical animism: Reading for the end of the world. Bloomsbury.
  • LaMothe, R. (2023). A political psychoanalysis for the Anthropocene age: The fierce urgency of now.
  • Nicoll, B. (2023). Enjoyment in the Anthropocene: The extimacy of ecological catastrophe in Donut County. Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, 25(1), 37–55. https://doi.org/10.1080/1600910X.2023.2188439 .
  • Davenport, L. (2017). Emotional resiliency in the era of climate change: A clinician’s guide.
  • Dodds, J. (2011). Psychoanalysis and ecology at the edge of chaos: Complexity theory, Deleuze|Guattari and psychoanalysis for a climate in crisis.
  • Hollway, W., Hoggett, C., Robertson, C. & Weintrobe, S. (2022). Climate psychology: A matter of life and death. Phoenix Publishing.
  • Klein Salaman, M. (2023). Facing the climate emergency: How to transform yourself with climate truth. New Society Publishers.
  • Lertzman, R. (2016). Environmental melancholia: Psychoanalytic dimensions of engagement.
  • Lifton, R. J. (2017). The climate swerve: Reflections on mind, hope, and survival. The New Press.
  • Rust, M. J., Totton, N, (2012). Vital signs: Psychological responses to ecological crisis.
  • Searles, H. (1960). The nonhuman environment in normal development and in schizophrenia. International Universities Press.
  • Teusch, R. & Kostner, D. (in press). The climate emergency and beyond in the consulting room.
  • Bauriedl-Schmidt, B. (2024). Best source of hope: Care, solidarity, disobedience reflected by the climate catastrophe, The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 77(1), 415-430, DOI: 1080/00797308.2023.2287385
  • Brenner, I. (2019). Climate change and the human factor: Why does not everyone realize what is happening? International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 16, 137–143.
  • Bednarek, S. (Ed.) (2024). Climate, psychology, and change: Reimagining psychotherapy in an era of global disruption and climate anxiety. North Atlantic Books.
  • Clayton S. et al. (2021). Mental health and our changing climate: Impact, inequities, responses. American Psychological Association. https://tinyurl.com/478je9nu

  • Hickman, C. (2024). Eco-anxiety in children and young people: A rational response, irreconcilable despair, or both? The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 77(1), 356-368. DOI: 1080/00797308.2023.2287381
  • Hörter, K. (2024). It makes me sad when so much of the forest burns down!: Childhood and youth in the context of the climate crisis. The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 77(1), 389-401. DOI: 1080/00797308.2023.2287383
  • Novick, K.K. (2021). Development in the midst of crisis. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 41(6), 431–437. https ://doi.org/10.1080/07351690.2021.1944786
  • Pihkala, P. (2024). Climate anxiety, maturational loss, and adversarial growth. The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 77(1), 369-388. DOI: 1080/00797308.2023.2287382
  • Schelhas, I. & Gast, M. (2024). I owe it to my daughter: How parents deal with the climate crisis. The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 77(1), 402-414. DOI: 1080/00797308.2023.2287384
  • Slater, P. (2023). Climate change: The psychological impact of climate anxiety and trauma: Understanding from the psychotherapeutic encounter. Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 49(3), 490-508. DOI: 1080/0075417X.2023.2274081
  • Weintrobe, S. (2024). Silencing is the real crime: Youth and elders talk about climate. The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 77(1), 341-355. DOI: 1080/00797308.2023.2287380
  • Louv, R. (2006). Last child in the woods. Saving our children from nature deficit disorder. Algonquin
  • Haseley, D. & Lament, C. (2024). A crisis hidden in plain sight: Climate anxiety in our youth – Introduction to the section. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 77, 330-338.

  • Orange, D. M. (2022). Climate justice and radical ethics. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 32(4), 339–340. https ://doi.org/10.1080/10481885.2022.2090806
  • Griffin, C. (2022). Who’s on my couch? Considering BIPOC subjectivity and the climate crisis. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 32(4), 340-341.
  • Bodnar, S. (2022). Losing hope in 2022: A tale of two environments. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 32(4), 343-344.

  • Bodnar, S. (2008). Wasted and bombed: Clinical enactments of a changing relationship to the earth. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 18, 484–512.
  • Clark, T. (2020). Ecological grief and Anthropocene horror. American Imago. 77(1), 61-79.
  • Kaplan, A. (2020). Is climate related pre-traumatic stress syndrome a real condition? American Imago, 77(1) 81-103.
  • Kassouf, S. (2022). Thinking catastrophic thoughts: A traumatized sensibility on a hotter planet. American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 82, 60-79.