Coming Back Down to Earth: Exploring Distress, Loss and Grief in the Anthropocene

2020
Climate and ecological emotions
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I am an academic psychologist interested in individual and collective forms of distress in relation to experiences of nature, the climate crisis and environmentalism. My intention here is to talk through what I see as some of the connections between critical approaches to psychology/psychiatry, experiences of emotional distress and the Anthropocene - a new(ish) name for the complex combination of climate and ecological crises we are living through.

Adams, M

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I am an academic psychologist interested in individual and collective forms of distress in relation to experiences of nature, the climate crisis and environmentalism. My intention here is to talk through what I see as some of the connections between critical approaches to psychology/psychiatry, experiences of emotional distress and the Anthropocene - a new(ish) name for the complex combination of climate and ecological crises we are living through.

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