Psychoanalysis And Ecology The Unconscious And The Environment 1st Edition Cosimo Schinaia by Cosimo Schinaia 9781032114828, 9781032114798, 9782021045536, 2021045536, 1032114827, 1032114797, 2021045535 instant download after payment.

This book presents the psychoanalyst with the question of how our enormously modifed environmental conditions determine our subjective mental changes and vice versa.
The gravity of the environmental crisis is amply clear and yet, in the face of such incontrovertible evidence, there is an emotional, more than cognitive, diffculty in comprehending the present reality and its future consequences. In understanding the collective imagination as permeating the individual one and vice versa, this book investigates this relationship of mutual co-determination between the individual traumatic stories told and experienced in the consulting room and the positive or negative environmental attitudes exhibited by patients. The pairing of clinical vignettes with dispatches from the collective imagination sheds light on the confused affective investments and anxieties that propel pathological defenses, such as negation, suppression, intellectualization, displacement, and disavowal.
The fnal chapter concludes with notes on the role of hope in a damaged world and the importance of integrity within the psychoanalytic feld and beyond. This book will be of great interest to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and psychiatrists, as well as anthropologists, environmentalists, and ecologists.