A new version of CPA member Steffi Bednarek's popular paper, Climate Change, Fragmentation & Collective Trauma: Bridging the Divided Stories We Live By, is freely available online replete with beautiful artwork by Peter Levich of Russian collective Future Foundation.
This paper explores psychological responses to climate change with the lenses of brain hemisphere imbalance, the fragmentation process of collective trauma and the Jungian maturation theory of two halves of life, which views suffering as a necessary component in the move towards a ripened culture. The perspective of climate trauma is widened to an inter-generational aspect. The article argues that the disowned and marginalised aspects of society need to be re-integrated, bridging cultural compartmentalisation and balancing the unequal representation of left and right hemisphere attributes. The writing itself aims to demonstrate this by weaving in and out of different paradigms.
It originally came out in 2020 as part of the Journal of Social Work Practice Special Edition – Ecology, Psychoanalysis and Global Warming: Present and Future Traumas, which can be found here.
If you prefer your academic papers with animation and art, click here for the Future Foundation version.
