This chapter offers a single clinical case study of what is described as 'climate mania', drawing on Lacanian theory to detail how climate change was central to the client's manic-depressive experience. It discusses how biomedical approaches to manic responses to climate threats can foreclose a person's sense of subjectivity in relation to the crisis, and indicates the need for further research into the intersections between climate change and extreme states such as mania and psychosis.
'Climate Mania'
2024
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This chapter offers a single clinical case study of what is described as 'climate mania', drawing on Lacanian theory to detail how climate change was central to the client's manic-depressive experience. It discusses how biomedical approaches to manic responses to climate threats can foreclose a person's sense of subjectivity in relation to the crisis, and indicates the need for further research into the intersections between climate change and extreme states such as mania and psychosis.
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