Responding to a paper on 'Five Best Practice Insights from Psychological Sciences', Lertzman argues that mainstream climate communication draws on only a narrow sliver of psychology - cognitive, behavioural and social psychology - while overlooking psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytic insights into loss, denial and the limits of purely positive, gain-framed messaging.
In Climate Change, Psychology Often Gets Lost in Translation
2015
Responding to a paper on 'Five Best Practice Insights from Psychological Sciences', Lertzman argues that mainstream climate communication draws on only a narrow sliver of psychology - cognitive, behavioural and social psychology - while overlooking psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytic insights into loss, denial and the limits of purely positive, gain-framed messaging.
Renee Lertzman
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