Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis - (Psychoanalytic Horizons) by Sally Weintrobe (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis tells the story of a fundamental fight between a caring and an uncaring imagination. It helps us to recognise the uncaring imagination in politics, in culture - for example in the writings of Ayn Rand - and also in ourselves. Sally Weintrobe argues that achieving the shift to greater care requires us to stop colluding with Exceptionalism, the rigid psychological mindset largely responsible for the climate crisis. People in this mindset believe that they are entitled to have the lion's share and that they can 'rearrange' reality with magical omnipotent thinking whenever reality limits these felt entitlements. While this book's subject is grim, its tone is reflective, ironic, light and at times humorous. It is free of jargon, and full of examples from history, culture, literature, poetry, everyday life and the author's experience as a psychoanalyst, and a professional life that has been dedicated to helping people to face difficult truths"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis</i>tells the story of a fundamental fight between a caring and an uncaring imagination. It helps us to recognise the uncaring imagination in politics, in culture - for example in the writings of Ayn Rand - and also in ourselves.<br/><br/>Sally Weintrobe argues that achieving the shift to greater care requires us to stop colluding with Exceptionalism, the rigid psychological mindset largely responsible for the climate crisis. People in this mindset believe that they are entitled to have the lion's share and that they can 'rearrange' reality with magical omnipotent thinking whenever reality limits these felt entitlements.<br/><br/>While this book's subject is grim, its tone is reflective, ironic, light and at times humorous. It is free of jargon, and full of examples from history, culture, literature, poetry, everyday life and the author's experience as a psychoanalyst, and a professional life that has been dedicated to helping people to face difficult truths.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>In his first speech as U.S. President-Elect, Joe Biden said: "Our nation is shaped by the constant battle between our better angels and our darkest impulses. It is time for our better angels to prevail." His words are a fitting endorsement of Sally Weintrobe's new book <i>Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis: Neoliberal Exceptionalism and the Culture of Uncare</i>. In it she peels back the lid on human exceptionalism and our ability to "uncare." She argues convincingly that these elemental features of the dominant neoliberal economic and political creed lie at the heart of the climate crisis. Unless and until we reassert our fundamentally caring nature, our ability to recognise planetary limits and retain control of our climatic destiny will continue to slip away. The book provides a powerful case that although technological solutions driven from within free markets will help to lessen the climate crisis, they will not be enough. Human behaviour will need to change also.<br/>Chris Rapley, CBE, Professor of Climate Science, University College London, UK<br><br>The distinction between the caring and uncaring parts of the human psyche was, for me, a new and powerful formulation - one that sheds much light on the mess we find ourselves in and perhaps offers some routes out!<br/>Bill McKibben, author of Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?<br><br>Weintrobe brilliantly weaves together insights from psychology, economics and environmental science. Her book offers a vital critique of neoliberal orthodoxies and the social, psychological and ecological toll that they have exacted. But she also charts a way forward, one that begins by regenerating our embattled cultures of care. This book is a tour de force.<br/>Rob Nixon, Barron Family Professor of Environment and Humanities, Princeton University, USA<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Sally Weintrobe</b><b> </b>is Fellow of The Institute of Psychoanalysis in London (and formerly Chair of its scientific programme) and Honorary Senior Lecturer at University College London, UK. Her past publications include, as editor and contributor, <i> </i><i>Engaging with Climate Change</i>, which was short-listed in 2014 for the International Gradiva Prize for contributions to psychoanalysis
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