Climate Change | Susan Bodnar PhD

Unresponsiveness to climate change: one reason

January 20, 2014 by Susan Bodnar

The more news about the impending consequences of climate change, the more I wonder why individuals react so slowly to the reality of climate change. Many behavioral scientists now attempt to address this issue. In the UK an organization called Climate Psychology Alliance serves as a hub for analysts and other practitioners of therapy who […]

Filed Under: climate change Tagged With: ecopsychology, emotional reaction to climate change, environment, human response to climate change, mind nature relationship, psychoanalysis and the environment, psychological response to climate change, Reaction to climate change

What Are We Doing?

June 22, 2011 by Susan Bodnar

(The first in a series about the convergence of psychological and environmental health) News from the natural world continues to haunt and this report from ISPO (international program on the state of the ocean) warns of a mass extinction in our lifetime. And Al Gore is assailing the Obama administration for its failure to take […]

Filed Under: climate change, ecopsychcology, personal environmentalism, series convergence of psychological and environmental health Tagged With: convergence of psychological and environmental health, corporate sustainability, ecopsychology, educational sustainability, family sustainability, Glenn Albrecht, ocean extinction, personal environmentalism, pschological aspects of climate change, psychoanalysis and the environment, psychological sustainability, psychology and the environment, Renee Lertzman

The Changing Climate Changes Me

May 26, 2011 by Susan Bodnar

Do human beings continue to adapt to their environments? Are some of those changes psychological? Are humans experiencing subtle alterations in their emotional and cognitive organization in response to climate change? While we ponder these questions with regard to humans, we are noticing suh chnages in other mammals. Antarctic Penguins are being driven […]

Filed Under: climate change, ecopsychcology, personal environmentalism Tagged With: climate change, ecological unconscious, ecopsychology, human relationship to nature, Nick Totton, personal environmentalism, pschological aspects of climate change, psychoanalysis, psychoanalysis and climate change, psychoanalysis and the environment, psychology and climate change, psychology and the environment

Thoughts about Japan by Adrian Tait

March 14, 2011 by Susan Bodnar

I haven’t been able to organize my thinking around what is taking place in Japan. I received, however, a thoughtful post from a colleague, Adrian Tait (UKCP Registered Psychotherapist, Member: The Guild of Psychotherapists, Visiting Fellow: Centre for Psycho-Social Studies, University of the West of England) written to a newly forming alliance of clinicians looking […]

Filed Under: climate change, environmental disaster, personal environmentalism, Uncategorized Tagged With: aftershocks, crisis in Japan, Earthquake, human response to Japan devastation, impact of Japan disaster on humans, Japan, Japan devastation, Japan environmental disaster, nuclear reactor meltdown, radiation, Tsunami

What’s Happening in Your Environment?

January 29, 2011 by Susan Bodnar

photo by Rolf Hicker at hickerphoto.com Last June I ran an international webseminar on psychology and the environment. During the first week, people sent in their observations of what was taking place in their localities. While many individual observations seemed small, their number and intensity impacted me. It seemed like people everywhere were noticing […]

Filed Under: climate change, global warming, personal environmentalism, Uncategorized Tagged With: climate change narratives, climate change stories, environment stories, environmental narratives, global warming narratives, global warming stories, human relationships and climate change, human relationships and environmental change, local climate change, personal environmentalism, pollution narratives, pollution stories, report climate change, report environmental change, report global warming, what's happening in my environment

Summer 2010: Paralyzed

August 19, 2010 by Susan Bodnar

This blog has gone dark since the end of June. Why? Every morning the heat rose trapping me in a vapor of thick intoxication. When the sun burned high in the sky the humidity coated my skin in a waxy sweat. The news was no lighter. The every hour on the hour triviality emerging from […]

Filed Under: climate change, ecopsychcology, environmental disaster, global warming, politics Tagged With: 14th amendment repeal, 2012, Captain "Sully" Sullenberger, climate change, climate change happening now, climate change intensifies, David Plouffe, Fox political contribution, global warming effects now, ground zero mosque, Josh Marshall, psychological reaction to climate change now, Robert Reich, Sarah Palin, slow economic recovery, summer 2010 heat wave, terror babies

Psychology and Environment: Summary

June 29, 2010 by Susan Bodnar

For the past month I have been participating in an on-line seminar about psychology and the environment. The seminar ended (see previous posts here, here, and here) with many questions. Do psychologists have any special contributions that can help with our environmental crisis? How can psychology contribute to the discussions on climate change? See my final thoughts after […]

Filed Under: climate change, ecopsychcology, human animal interaction, personal environmentalism, Uncategorized Tagged With: andrew samuels, ecological unconscious, ecopsychology, environmental seminar, Glenn Albrecht, psychoanalysis and the environment, psychological aspects of climate change, psychology and the environment, Sally weintrobe

Psychology,Psychoanalysis and the Environment

June 11, 2010 by Susan Bodnar

The IARPP environmental and psychology seminar continues into its second week. The panelists have been asked the following questions in five subject area. Human Geography: 1)Are there unique psychological states of mind that correspond to different geographic localities? 2)What happens to the mind when the environmental localities begin to transform due to environmental corruption, climate […]

Filed Under: climate change, ecopsychcology, environmental disaster, geography, global warming, personal environmentalism Tagged With: ecopsychology, Glenn Albrecht, psychoanalysis and climate change, psychoanalysis and the environment, psychoanalysis and the gulf oil spill, psychology, psychology and climate change, psychology and gulf oil crisis, psychology and the environment, Renee Lertzman, Rosemary Randall, sebastiano santostefano

Psychology, Psychoanalysis and the Environment

June 4, 2010 by Susan Bodnar

The environmental seminar at IARPP launched this week with a mix of emotional response to the Gulf Oil Coast and some salient points regarding the interface between psychology, psychoanalysis and the environment. Many ventured to discuss the significance of environmental devastation on life as we know it. People’s lives are being affected now see here […]

Filed Under: climate change, ecopsychcology, environmental disaster Tagged With: andrew samuels, Coping with the Gulf Coast Oil Spill, emotional impact of Gulf Coast oil spill, emotional reaction to climate change, Glenn Albrecht, Gulf Coast oil spill impact on people, Nick Totton, people's reactions to climate change, psychology and environment, psychology and the Gulf Coast oil crisis, Renee Lertzman, Rosemary Randall

Psychoanalysis, Psychology and the Environment

May 28, 2010 by Susan Bodnar

Begininng Tuesday June 1 – Friday June 25th IARPP will be hosting an online seminar: Psychoanalysis, Psychology and the Environment: A Dialogue. Given what has transpired in the Gulf Coast, this topic couldn’t be more timely. The seminar ($10.00 fee) is open to all IARPP members ($135.00 membership fee). During that time period this blog […]

Filed Under: climate change, ecopsychcology, environmental disaster, global warming, personal environmentalism Tagged With: andrew samuels, ecopsychology, Ecopsychology UK, ecospsychology Australia, Glenn Albrecht, Gulf Coast oil spill, Nick Totton, Paul Hoggett, pschological aspects of climate change, psychoanalysis and the environment, psychological comments on Gulf oil crisis, psychological response to Gulf Coast oil spill, psychology and the environment, R.D. Hinshelwood, Renee Lertzman, rosemary Randalls, Sally weintrobe, solastalgia, Thomas Doherty