ABSTRACT

Adequately addressing the impact climate change has on our patients requires that analysts become both trauma and climate informed. By being aware of both the climate crisis and of the correlating trauma it produces, the analyst is in position actively to bring environmentally relevant affects to consciousness, without necessarily becoming an activist or advocating for a particular position. The analyst thereby aids the development of unconscious psychic energy, allowing the analysand to imagine a more mature and less destructive relationship with nature.