Event Description:
With Climate Week underway at the United Nations, many of us may be paying more attention to the climate news just now. (Given the summer that has just passed -- replete with drought and fire -- many of us may have been paying more attention, anyway.) The reports are disconcerting, even alarming. As of Friday, Sept 17, for instance, the UN has warned that the planet is on track to warm by more than 2.7 degrees Celsius by the end of the century — far above the acceptable upper limit of global warming.
What do we make of this? Is there a clinical context for understanding what is coming to be termed “climate grief”? How do we process our own reactions, whether they be panic, depression, or protective indifference?
Event Speaker
Lise Van Susteren, general and forensic psychiatrist
Event Information:
Free and open to the public; registration required. Please visit the event webpage or contact Megan Wolff at [email protected] for additional information.
This lecture is part of the Richardson History of Psychiatry Research Seminar. Hosted by the DeWitt Wallace Institute for the History of Psychiatry at Weill Medical College of Cornell University.
