Climate Psychology Alliance North America (CPA-NA) addresses the urgent psychological dimensions of the climate and ecological crisis and promotes cultural shifts toward human resilience, regeneration, and equity.

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a woman standing beside a tranquil lake

by Naomi Mandsager Bartley, PhD, LPCC, Selin Nurgün, MS, Deborah Seabrook, PhD RCC MTA

a young girl reaching out to touch a tree in a forest
bad air pollution in san francisco

By Jenni Silverstein, LCSW, Santa Rosa, California

By Deborah Cooper, MFT, San Francisco CA

A Conversation about Climate:
“How did we get here, and where to now?”

With Bill McKibben and Sally Weintrobe

CPA-NA hosted a conversation between American environmentalist Bill McKibben and British psychoanalyst Sally Weintrobe about her brilliant new book, Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis: Neoliberal Exceptionalism and the Culture of Uncare.

See the recording by clicking below:

Why did the flower fade? I pressed it to my heart with anxious love, that is why the flower faded. Why did the stream dry up? I put a dam across it to have it for my use, that is why the stream dried up. Why did the harp-string break? I tried to force a note that was beyond its power, that is why the harp-string is broken.
— Rabindranath Tagore, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1913