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    Distance Learning Course: Ecopsychoanalysis and the Psychology of Climate Change

    WEDNESDAYS, FEBRUARY 5 – APRIL 15, 2020  |  10:00 – 11:30 AM (Eastern), Via Zoom

    THIS COURSE IS OPEN TO PARTICIPANTS IN NEW YORK
    AS WELL AS THOSE OUTSIDE THE METROPOLITAN AREA

    15 CE credits for Licensed Psychoanalysis and Social Workers

    Tuition: $500

     

    Climate change is perhaps the single biggest threat our species has faced, but existing approaches to solving this problem largely focus on ecological issues without addressing the underlying psychological factors that shape our responses to them, including anxiety, denial, paranoia, apathy, guilt, hope, and despair. Ecopsychoanalysis is a new interdisciplinary approach to thinking about the relationship between psychoanalysis, ecology, “the natural,” and the climate crisis. It draws on a range of fields, including psychoanalysis, psychology, ecology, philosophy, science, nonlinear dynamical systems theory (also known as chaos theory or complexity theory), aesthetics, and the humanities.

    Psychoanalysis has a unique role to play in solving the climate crisis, with its emphasis on the unconscious dimensions of our mental and social lives. However, despite being essential to studying environmentalism and its discontents, psychoanalysis remains largely a psychology without ecology. This course aims to bridge that gap. This course will be taught via Zoom and is open to participants in New York as well as those outside the metropolitan area. The key required text for the course is Joseph Dodds’ Psychoanalysis and Ecology at the Edge of Chaos (Routledge, 2011). A range of other readings will be provided during the course.

    Joseph Dodds, PhD, is a psychoanalyst in private practice (Czech Psychoanalytical Society, International Psychoanalytical Association), a senior lecturer in psychoanalysis at the Anglo-American University, Prague, a psychology lecturer at the University of New York in Prague, and a chartered psychologist and associate fellow of the British Psychological Society. His research includes psychoanalytic approaches to art, film, neuroscience, society, and climate change.

     

    Tuition: $500

     

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