Origins of Ecopsychology
www.ecopsychology.org.uk “Re origins of ecopsychology – my understanding was that Robert Greenway was involved in this work in the USA in 1960’s (as psychoecology) although term ‘ecopsychology’ was...
View ArticleTV report on legislating against non-violent eco-activism
A report relating to the depths of denial being reached… in this case legislation against protest including non-violent activism...
View ArticleAGM and Members Day
6th July sees CPA’s first AGM, at the Guild of Psychotherapists, 47 Nelson Square London SE1 1QA. A notice has been sent individually to all members, but please note that the day begins ...
View ArticleMind in the Gap: Summary of a research project exploring ‘inner’ influences...
Paper by Paul Maiteny in Environmental Education Research journal Vol. 8, No 3, 2002. Special issue on understanding the role of emotional engagement and significant experience in prompting...
View ArticleWhy Climate Change May Be Responsible for the Horrors in Syria
Why Climate Change May Be Responsible for the Horrors in Syria Perhaps we should stop blowing things up for a little while and concentrate on being a global leader on the real existential crisis of...
View ArticleBPS Research Digest: Climate change sceptic films more influential than...
Climate change sceptic films more influential than advocacy films, claims study, by Christian Jarret, September 2013 Eminent scientists have condemned films that are sceptical about climate change....
View ArticleWhy the World Won’t Listen: Problems with a ‘Values Approach’ to Climate Change
This is intended as a reply to the recent posting of Adam Corner’s article “Why the World Won’t Listen” on the CPA website. Although I am somewhat critical of Adam’s approach I think the whole ...
View ArticleClimate Change Denialism and the Problems of Psychology Article
Despite the fact that more people now acknowledge that climate change represents a significant threat to human well-being, this has yet to translate into any meaningful action. Psychologists may have...
View ArticleThe story of how greens became energy enemy number one
On the Greenpeace website 6th November George Marshall posted an interesting piece on the way that enemy/victim hero/victim narratives are common in environmental debates from many sides....
View ArticleCarol Ride – Australia – a sorry tale of a dramatic shift from fertile to...
Click here to listen to Carol Ride’s contribution to the CPA’s Fertile and Sterile Dialogue Event, or read a transcript below. In 2011 the Labor government of Australia introduced a carbon package –...
View ArticleJoseph Dodds – Fertile and sterile Dialogue in the Climate Change Debate in...
Fertile and sterile Dialogue in the Climate Change Debate A written contribution sent to us by Joseph Dodds in Prague, Czech Republic and composed by an Ecopsychology colleague....
View ArticleGeorge Monbiot: An Ounce of Hope is Worth a Ton of Despair
Please follow this link to read the excellent article on George Monbiot’s website about hope, despair and the politics of Climate Change.
View ArticleThe CPA web site: glitches and plans…
We’ve had some glitches with this web site recently. This is one of the reasons that the amount of new material has been slower of late. Apologies for this. We are however, we hope, on ...
View Articletime death nature
Sometimes he stares into the distance and when he does this I can’t tell whether he is looking out or looking in. Looking in I guess, looking in for those signs that all is not ...
View ArticleRoyal College of Psychiatrists Sustainability Summit
3rd October 2014 from Daniel Maughan RCPsych Sustainability Fellow The RCPsych Sustainability Summit On the 1st October we had the first sustainability summit run by a medical royal college in the UK....
View ArticleClimate Change and the Media event
Climate Change and the Media: Anne Karpf in discussion with John Vidal, James Painter and Sally Weintrobe in an event organised by the Centre for Research into Media, Identity and Culture (MiC) Anne...
View ArticleSustainable Psychotherapy project wins RCPsych award
RCPsych Psychiatric Team of the Year 2014: Outstanding Contribution to Sustainability. The Growing Better Lives Project. Growing Better Lives is a social enterprise based in a yurt at an environmental...
View ArticleRadical Hope – approached through poetry and psychotherapy
Radical Hope by Paul Hoggett ‘I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing ‘ These opening lines from T.S. Eliott’s East Coker illuminate the pull of ...
View ArticleReview of Stephen Duguid (2010) Nature in Modernity. New York: Peter Lang.
This is one of the most stimulating and enjoyable books about humanity’s relationship to nature that I have come across. In particular it offers a possible answer to one of the most vexed questions...
View ArticleRadical Hope & Cultural Tragedy Conference 18th April 2015
Climate Psychology Alliance presents Radical Hope and Cultural Tragedy: A conference to highlight the complex pressures within our collective mind in the face of dramatic climate changes Location:...
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