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How Can We Help And Support People To Face Climate Change? Engaging With Climate Change Is One Of The First Books To Explore In Depth What Climate Change Actually Means To People. It Brings Members Of A Wide Range Of Different Disciplines In The Social Sciences Together In Discussion And To Introduce A Psychoanalytic Perspective. The Important Insights That Result Have Real Implications For Policy, Particularly With Regard To How To Relate To People When Discussing The Issue. Topics Covered Include: What Lies Beneath The Current Widespread Denial Of Climate Change; How Do We Manage Our Feelings About Climate Change; Our Great Difficulty In Acknowledging Our True Dependence On Nature; Our Conflicting Identifications; The Effects Of Living Within Cultures That Have Perverse Aspects; The Need To Mourn Before We Can Engage In A Positive Way With The New Conditions We Find Ourselves In. Through Understanding These Issues And Adopting Policies That Recognise Their Implications Humanity Can Hope To Develop A Response To Climate Change Of The Nature And Scale Necessary. Aimed At The General Reader As Well As Psychoanalysts, Psychotherapists And Climate Scientists, This Book Will Deepen Our Understanding Of The Human Response To Climate Change.-- What History Can Teach Us About Climate Change Denial / Clive Hamilton -- The Difficult Problem Of Anxiety In Thinking About Climate Change / Sally Weintrobe; Discussion [by] Johannes Lehtonen, Jukka Välimäki, And Angela Maus-hanke -- Climate Change In A Perverse Culture / Paul Hoggett; Discussion [by] Stanley Cohen, John Steiner; Reply [by] Paul Hoggett -- Great Expectations: The Psychodynamics Of Ecological Debt / Rosemary Randall; Discussion [by] Margaret Rustin, Bob Ward; Reply [by] Rosemary Randall -- The Myth Of Apathy: Psychoanalytic Explorations Of Environmental Subjectivity / Renee Aron Lertzman; Discussion [by] Irma Brenman Pick, Erik Bichard -- Unconscious Obstacles To Caring For The Planet: Facing Up To Human Nature / John Keene; Discussion [by] Michael Brearley, Bob Hinshelwood -- How Is Climate Change An Issue For Psychoanalysis? / Michael Rustin; Discussion [by] Jon Alexander, Ted Benton; Reply [by] Michael Rustin -- On The Love Of Nature And Human Nature: Restoring Split Internal Landscapes / Sally Weintrobe; Discussion [by] Mike Hannis, Tom Crompton -- Climate Change, Uncertainty, And Risk / Stephan Harrison. Edited By Sally Weintrobe. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.