Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis
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Contents

  • Introduction and guidance
  • Week 1: The climate and ecological crisis and how we got hereReferences
  • Introduction
  • 1 Facing it
  • 2 Anthropocene and growth
    • 2.1 The Great Acceleration
  • 3 Modern humans’ relation to the Earth
    • 3.1 Ecopsychology
    • 3.2 Consumerism
  • 4 Individual behaviour change and beyond
    • 4.1 Responsibilisation
  • 5 Trouble with the COPs
  • 6 Summary of Week 1
  • Week 2: Engaging with the climate and ecological crisis: indifference, distress and beyond
  • Introduction
  • 1 Facing difficult truths
  • 2 A depth psychological perspective
  • 3 A human story of real-world feelings
  • 4 Eco-anxiety
    • 4.1 Solastalgia
  • 5 Climate distress as a healthy response to reality
  • 6 Doomism
  • 7 Summary of Week 2
  • Week 3: Engaging with the climate and ecological crisis: denialism and other challenges
  • Introduction
  • 1 Business as usual?
  • 2 Types of denial
  • 3 Organised climate change denial: a brief history and its main strategies
    • 3.1 What are the main strategies used by organised climate change deniers?
  • 4 Individual responsibility
  • 5 Greenwashing
  • 6 Technology
  • 7 A problem too difficult to conceive: climate change as a ‘hyperobject’
  • 8 Summary of Week 3
  • Week 4: Living with the climate and ecological crisis
  • Introduction
  • 1 Emotional engagement
  • 2 Taking action
    • 2.1 Danger of burnout
    • 2.2 Self-care
  • 3 Summary of Week 4
  • 4 Course summary
  • References
  • Acknowledgements

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