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A Crisis Hidden in Plain Sight: Climate Anxiety in Our Youth"“Introduction to the Section

Haseley, Dennis; Lament, Claudia
Dennis Haseley and Claudia Lament, the editors of this special section of The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child titled, A Crisis Hidden in Plain Sight: Climate Anxiety in Our Youth, summarize in their introduction the contributions made by American and European activists, psychoanalysts, and researchers: Bill McKibben, Sally Weintrobe, Caroline Hickman, Panu Pihkala, Kathrin Horter, Ines Schelhas and Martina Gast, Christine Bauriedl-Schmidt. In their introduction, the editors emphasize the emotional catastrophe, stemming from climate change, that is being visited on the next generations. They find the current culture of "uncare" implicated, as it gives permission to our worst instincts to both exploit the planet and deny the consequences. Remedies include psychological understanding, clinical work, and community support. Finally, they echo the call by the German author, Kathrin Horter, for psychoanalysts themselves to use their tools to take action and find ways to intervene, not just on an individual clinical basis, but in the field of society as a whole.
SCOPUS:85182988405
ISSN: 0079-7308
CID: 5629382

Climate change: Clinical considerations

Haseley, Dennis
Psychological reactions to climate change run the gamut from a sense of the need for urgent action to utter denial. This paper looks at some categories of defenses that block acknowledgement of this pressing threat. It cites the work of Renee Lertzman, an analytically oriented social scientist, whose research suggested that disavowal, negation, or denial could be deconstructed and viewed as defenses against intolerable anxieties, feelings of helplessness and disappointment, loss and guilt, and warded-off wishes for agency and reparation. Clinical examples and personal self-reflection are employed to posit that when anxiety over climate change, a serious disquiet in its own right, gets confused with childhood traumatic anxiety, with its attendant feelings of helplessness, smallness, hopelessness, shame, isolation, and useless rage, then dysfunctional defenses and affects are more likely to come to the fore. In contrast to this, realistic anxiety over our changing climate and need to shift from a carbon-based culture can be made more tolerable and can allow one to face the uncertain future, to feel one's feelings, to work them through, to share them without shame, and to feel a certain amount of agency in confronting the climate future and working to cope with it, both individually and societally. Finally, the paper suggests that we clinicians need to listen with new awareness to patients' references to and defenses against climate change, as not simply displacements but also as allusions to a looming reality that is a thing in itself. It is suggested that although we cannot impose our agendas on our patients, as climate change disavowal breaks down, we do have in our tool kit ways of helping our patients with it, depending of course very much on the state of our own disavowal.
PSYCH:2019-37021-004
ISSN: 1556-9187
CID: 3990092

Institutional, Financial, Legal, and Cultural Factors in a Distance Learning Program

Blakeman, Rachel; Haseley, Dennis
As psychoanalytic institutes evolve, adapting to the contemporary financial and social environment, the integration of new technologies into psychoanalytic education presents opportunities for expansion to candidates residing beyond the usual geographic boundaries. While the teaching of analytic content through distance learning programs appears to be relatively straightforward, factors including legalities, traditional mind-sets, and cross-cultural issues need to be considered as complicating the situation, as illustrated by one U.S. institute's distance learning initiative with a group in South Korea.
PMID: 26185289
ISSN: 1941-2460
CID: 1718892

Catching ghosts

Haseley, Dennis
There are few psychoanalytically informed, first-person commentaries on the creative process of writing fiction. In this paper, the author, a psychoanalyst with a parallel career as a children's book writer, explores his associations, autobiographical details, and related theoretical constructs as they relate to the writing of one of his published picture book texts. Lastly, he questions whether a piece of fiction not only illustrates the writer's current and past history, but also points to the writer's future psychological potentialities
PMID: 22034680
ISSN: 0033-2828
CID: 140497