Books

 

It is difficult to categorize books about climate psychology, because they are, by necessity, interdisciplinary in nature - frequently touching on ecology, individual experience, communication, and policy. As this book list has grown, we have attempted to group these resources by primary focus for the sake of convenience. If you have recommendations for additional titles, please let us know!

Clinical / Mental Health-Oriented

  1. Adams, M. (2016). Ecological crisis, sustainability and the psychosocial subject. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

  2. Adams, M. (2020). Anthropocene Psychology: Being Human in a More-than-Human World. London: Routledge.

  3. Albrecht, G. A. (2019). Earth emotions: New words for a new world. Cornell University Press.

  4. Bright, B (2019). Earth, Climate, Dreams: Dialogues with Depth Psychologists in the Age of the Anthropocene.

  5. Clayton, S & Christie M (2018). Psychology and Climate Change: Human Perceptions, Impacts, and Responses.

  6. Davenport, L. (2017). Emotional resiliency in the era of climate change: a clinician's guide. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

  7. Dodds, J. (2012). Psychoanalysis and ecology at the edge of chaos: Complexity theory, Deleuze, Guattari and psychoanalysis for a climate in crisis. Routledge.

  8. Gillespie, S. (2019). Climate Crisis and Consciousness: Re-Imagining Our World and Ourselves. Routledge.

  9. Goldman, L. (2022). Climate Change and Youth: Turning Grief and Anxiety into Activism. Routledge.

  10. Hogget, P (ed.) (2019). Climate Psychology: On Indifference to Disaster.

  11. Kiehl, J. T. (2016). Facing climate change: An integrated path to the future. Columbia University Press.

  12. Lertzman, R. (2015). Environmental melancholia: Psychoanalytic dimensions of engagement. Routledge.

  13. Levine, H., Jacobs, D., & Rubin, L., Eds. (1989) Psychoanalysis and the Nuclear Threat.

    Routledge.

  14. Lifton, RJ. (2017). The Climate Swerve: Reflections on Mind, Hope and Survival. NY: The New Press.

  15. Nicholsen, S. (2002). The Love of Nature and the End of the World: The Unspoken Dimensions of Environmental Concern.

  16. Orange, D. M. (2016). Climate crisis, psychoanalysis, and radical ethics. Routledge.

  17. Rust, M. & Totton, N., Eds. (2012) Vital Signs: Psychological Responses to Ecological Crisis. Karnac.

  18. Searles, H. (1960). The Nonhuman Environment in Normal Development and in Schizophrenia. New York: International Universities Press.

  19. Weber, J. A. (2020). Climate Cure: Heal Yourself to Heal the Planet. Llewellyn Worldwide.

  20. Weintrobe, Sally (Ed.) (2012). Engaging with Climate Change: Psychoanalytic and Interdisciplinary Perspectives.

  21. Weintrobe, Sally (2021). Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis. Bloomsbury.

  22. Zimmerman, L. (2020). Trauma and the Discourse of Climate Change: Literature, Psychoanalysis and Denial. Routledge.

Climate Communication & Climate Action

  1. Beattie, G., & McGuire, L. (2018). The psychology of climate change. Routledge.

  2. Corbett, J.B. (2021). Communicating the Climate Crisis: New Directions for Facing What Lies Ahead. Lexington Books.

  3. DeMocker, M. (2018). The Parent’s Guide to Climate Revolution. New World Library, Novato, CA.

  4. Doppelt, B. (2016) Transformational Resilience: How Building Human Resilience to Climate Disruption Can Safeguard Society and Increase Wellbeing.

  5. Foster, D (2019). Facing Up to Climate Reality: Honesty, Disaster and Hope.

  6. Jamail, D (2019). The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption. New Press.

  7. Johnson, A.E. and K. K. Wilkinson. (2020) All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis. One World.

  8. Kalmus, P. (2017) Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution

  9. Kelsey, E (2020) Hope Matters: Why Changing the Way We Think Is Critical to Solving the Environmental Crisis.

  10. Macy, J., & Johnstone, C. (2012). Active hope: How to face the mess we're in without going crazy.

  11. Marshall, G. (2015). Don't even think about it: Why our brains are wired to ignore climate change.

  12. Ray, S. J. (2020). A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet. University of California Press.

  13. Rush, E. (2018). Rising: Dispatches From the New American Shore.

  14. Salamon, M. K. (2020). Facing the climate emergency: How to transform yourself with climate truth. New Society Publishers.

  15. Sharot, T. (2017). The influential mind: What the brain reveals about our power to change others. Henry Holt and Company.

  16. Sinatra, G., & Hofer, B. (2021). Science Denial: Why it Happens and what to Do about it. Oxford University Press.

  17. Stoknes, P.E. (2015). What we think about when we try not to think about global warming: Toward a new psychology of climate action.

  18. van Valkengoed, A, and L Steg (2019). The Psychology of Climate Change Adaptation.

  19. Verlie, B. (2022) Learning to Live with Climate Change: From Anxiety to Transformation

  20. Wray, Britt (2022). Generation Dread.

  21. Zhiwa, W (2017). Climate Sense: Changing the Way We Think & Feel About Our Climate in Crisis.

Anthropology, Sociology, Philosophy, & Spirituality

  1. Albrecht, G. (2019). Earth Emotions: New Words for a New World.

  2. Cunsolo, A., & Landman, K. (Eds.). (2017). Mourning Nature: Hope at the Heart of Ecological Loss and Grief.

  3. Ghosh, A (2018). The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable.

  4. Hanh, T. N., et al. (2013). Spiritual ecology: the cry of the earth.

  5. Haraway, D. J. (2016). Staying with the trouble: Making kin in the Chthulucene.

  6. Head, L. (2016). Hope and Grief in the Anthropocene: Re-conceptualising human–nature relations. Routledge.

  7. Hoffman, A. J. (2015). How culture shapes the climate change debate.

  8. Latour, B. (2017). Facing Gaia: Eight lectures on the new climatic regime. John Wiley & Sons.

  9. Latour, B. (2018). Down to earth: Politics in the new climatic regime. John Wiley & Sons.

  10. Macy (2021). World as Lover, World as Self. Parallax Press.

  11. McGrath, S. (2019). Thinking Nature: An Essay in Negative Ecology.

  12. Moore, K.D. (2017) Great Tide Rising: Towards Clarity and Moral Courage in a time of Planetary Change

  13. Morton, T. (2018). Being ecological. Mit Press.

  14. Nagel, J. (2016). Gender and Climate Change: Impacts, Science, Policy Routledge.

  15. Newby (2021). Beyond Climate Grief.

  16. Norgaard, Kari Marie (2011). Living in Denial Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life.

  17. Tsing, A. L. et al. (Eds.) (2017). Arts of living on a damaged planet: Ghosts and monsters of the Anthropocene. 

  18. Tsing, A. L. (2015). The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins.