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  • Climate, Psychology and Change

  • Reimagining Psychotherapy in an Era of Global Disruption and Climate Anxiety
  • By: Steffi Bednarek, Thomas Hübl PhD
  • Narrated by: Elena Rey
  • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
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Climate, Psychology and Change

By: Steffi Bednarek, Thomas Hübl PhD
Narrated by: Elena Rey
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With so many immediate and intensifying crises unfolding around us, how can therapists adapt to promote healing and growth?

“As these intriguing essays make clear, some of the finest minds in the world are thinking through the problems and arriving at powerful answers."
—Bill McKibben, author, environmentalist, educator, activist, and founder of Third Act

With essays from Francis Weller, Bayo Akomolafe, Hāweatea Holly Bryson, and more


Western psychotherapy views our practice as a way to bring clients back to baseline “normal.” But our society’s “normal” is profoundly unwell: our ways of being reflect the same unsustainable systems that erode our ecosystems, accelerate global destruction, and ultimately extract our humanity. Moving toward healing and purpose in uncertain times means evolving the way we do therapy and the way we think about mental health.

Editor and climate psychologist Steffi Bednarek invites us to co-create a field that navigates unknown futures with skill and grace—one that helps clients build resilience and holds space for the uncertainties unfolding before us. She and 32 contributors explore ideas like:

  • Decolonizing therapy
  • Using therapeutic tools to respond to trauma
  • What psychologists can offer movements for social change and climate justice
  • Helping clients recognize and move past unhelpful responses to climate emergency
  • Nurturing creativity in the face of crisis

Holistic and intersectional, this collection reckons with the ways power, colonialism, and capitalism impact our myriad crises—while shaping Western psychology as we know it.

With essays by clinicians from both the Global South and Global North, Climate, Psychology, and Change is an anthology unlike anything you’ve heard before: a necessary response, an urgent appeal, and a fearless look forward at how we care for our clients, eyes wide open, with compassion and skill in an uncertain world.

©2024 Steffi Bednarek (P)2024 North Atlantic Books
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Critic reviews

“Climate change is a systemic problem with geophysical, technological, economic, political, and ethical dimensions, among others. The in-depth exploration of our climate crisis from a mental health perspective offered in this book will be an important contribution to an urgently needed dialogue.”—Fritjof Capra, author of The Web of Life and coauthor of The Systems View of Life

“Steffi Bednarek has curated a collection of texts that asks extremely important questions about what psychotherapy might look like beyond its mainstream individualistic, anthropocentric, and Western/colonial frameworks. Without providing definitive answers, this book invites the readers to consider how the focus on individual mental health and wellbeing is preventing us from recognizing how our current inner cognitive, affective, and relational infrastructures are tied to the collapsing infrastructures that surround us. Climate, Psychology, and Change is an invaluable companion to those interested in who we can be once we process the difficult lessons of modernity dying within and around us.”—Vanessa Machado de Oliveira, author of Hospicing Modernity

Climate, Psychology, and Change is an outstanding update of the ecopsychology movement. A broad range of perspectives are brought together in this collection of marvelous essays showing that the human soul cannot be healthy on a sick planet. The healing of the anima mundi and the healing of the human soul depend on each other. It is more than a book; it is a treasure of radical ideas and profound insights. It is a book of wisdom! Steffi Bednarek has woven a garland of great thoughts which will inspire the reader to look at the world and see it as an interconnected whole.”—Satish Kumar, founder of Schumacher College and editor emeritus of Resurgence & Ecologist

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