Climate Trauma: A Bibliography
Below you will find a list of references related, either directly or indirectly, to the idea of Climate Trauma. This list was last updated in April, 2020. If you have any additional references that we’ve missed, please contact us and let us know.
Baker, Carolyn. “Climate Trauma And Recovery: The Healing Path Of Cultural Truth And Reconciliation, By Zhiwa Woodbury.” February 18, 2019.
Bellamy, A. (2019). Trauma, fragmentation and narrative: Sandor Ferenczi's relevance for psychoanalytical perspectives on our response to climate change and environmental destruction. International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 16(2), 100-108.
Berry, H. L., Bowen, K., & Kjellstrom, T. (2010). Climate change and mental health: a causal pathways framework. International journal of public health, 55(2), 123-132.
Brulle, R. J., & Norgaard, K. M. (2019). Avoiding cultural trauma: climate change and social inertia. Environmental Politics, 28(5), 886-908.
Caruth, C. (2016). Unclaimed experience: Trauma, narrative, and history. JHU Press.
Colino, Stacy (2018). “Fearing the Future: Pre-Traumatic Stress Reactions.” U.S. News & World Report.
Crownshaw, R. (2017). Cultural memory studies in the epoch of the Anthropocene. In Memory Unbound: Tracing the Dynamics of Memory Studies, 242-57.
Craps, Stef. “Climate Trauma.” The Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma Ed. Colin Davis and Hanna Meretoja. Abingdon: Routledge, 2020. 275-84.
Doppelt, B (2019). “In My Opinion: Surviving climate trauma.” The Register Guard. September 26, 2019.
Duggen (2014). Is this how you feel? [website]
Gifford, E., & Gifford, R. (2016). The largely unacknowledged impact of climate change on mental health. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 72(5), 292-297.
Caldwell, G (2019). “Coming out of the closet: my climate trauma (and yours?).” May 23, 2019. Living Resilience.
Haggart, K. “Seeing human and climate trauma as one.” uOttowa Tabaret.
Hansen, Ellie (2019). “Our Climate Change Inaction: Is “Climate Trauma” the Missing Link?” Columbia Political Review. May 27, 2019.
Herbert, W (2016). “Healing the Wounds of the Future.” Huffington Post. August 6, 2014.
Holthaus, E (2019). “How climate trauma led to support for bold action.” Grist. Feb 12, 2019.
Hopkins, Rob. “Lise van Susteren on Pre-Traumatic Stress Disorder and the imagination.”
Houser, H. (2014). Ecosickness in Contemporary US Fiction: Environment and Affect. Columbia University Press.
Kaplan, E. A. (2015). Climate trauma: Foreseeing the future in dystopian film and fiction. Rutgers University Press.
Kaplan, E. A. (2020). Is Climate-Related Pre-Traumatic Stress Syndrome a Real Condition?. American Imago, 77(1), 81-104.
Kassouf, S. (2017). Psychoanalysis and Climate Change: Revisiting Searles's The Nonhuman Environment, Rediscovering Freud's Phylogenetic Fantasy, and Imagining a Future. American Imago, 74(2), 141-171.
Lipton, Judith (2017). “Pre-Traumatic Stress Disorder Living with fear for the future”. Psychology Today.
Mackay, R. (2012). A brief history of Geotrauma. In Leper creativity: Cyclonopedia symposium (pp. 1-37). Brooklyn, NY: punctum.
Manongdo, Ping (2017). “Climate trauma: The invisible cost of climate change.” November 3, 2017.
Martin, J. S. The Wave, the Wound and the Witness: Climate Trauma, Ethics and Listening in Les Mains Lâchées. 世界文学研究论坛, 402.
Myers, D (2019). “Climate Change and Mental Health: Q&A with Lise Van Susteren, MD.” March 15, 2017. Global Health NOW.
Narine, A. (2014). Introduction: Eco-Trauma Cinema. In Eco-Trauma Cinema (pp. 15-38). Routledge.
Oberhaus, Daniel (2017). “Climate Change Is Giving Us 'Pre-Traumatic Stress'.” Vice. February 4, 2017.
The Onion (2005). “Report: More U.S. Soldiers Suffering From Pre-Traumatic Stress Disorder.” The Onion.
Pihkala, P. (2020). The Cost of Bearing Witness to the Environmental Crisis: Vicarious Traumatization and Dealing with Secondary Traumatic Stress among Environmental Researchers. Social Epistemology, 34(1), 86-100.
Rauch (2017). “Interview: Lise Van Susteren Talks About the Mental Health Impacts of Climate Change.” October 13, 2017. Moms for Clean Air Force.
Richardson, M. (2018). Climate Trauma, or the Affects of the Catastrophe to Come. Environmental Humanities, 10(1), 1-19.
Riedel, E. (2017). Anima mundi: the epidemic of collective trauma. Psychological Perspectives, 60(2), 134-155.
Riedel, E. (2020). Collective Trauma: A Human Ecosystems Perspective. International Journal of Jungian Studies, 12(1), 60-87.
Roca Lizarazu, M., and Vince, R., (2018). Memory Studies Goes Planetary: An Interview with Stef Craps. Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal, 5(2), 1-15. Retrieved from: http://exchanges.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/exchanges/article/view/245
Rothberg, M. (2014). Beyond Tancred and Clorinda: Trauma studies for implicated subjects. The future of trauma theory: Contemporary literary and cultural criticism, 2076-0787.
Saint-Amour, P. K. (2015). Tense Future: Modernism, Total War, Encyclopedic Form. Oxford University Press.
Stern, C & Colin, N (2019). “Tomorrow’s doctors will diagnose the mental toll of climate change.” Ozy. July 22, 2019.
Tosone, C., Nuttman-Shwartz, O., & Stephens, T. (2012). Shared trauma: When the professional is personal. Clinical Social Work Journal, 40(2), 231-239.
Van Susteren, L. (2018). The psychological impacts of the climate crisis: a call to action. BJPsych international, 15(2), 25-26.
Welch, B. (2018). “Overcoming Climate Trauma.” [Video] from "Mind over Chatter: Exploring Climate Psychology.” Climate One.
White, B. (2015). States of emergency: Trauma and climate change. Ecopsychology, 7(4), 192-197.
Woodbury, Z (2019). Climate Trauma: Toward a New Taxonomy of Trauma. Ecopsychology, 11(1), 1-8.
Woodbury, Z (2019). “Climate Trauma & Recovery: The Radical Compassion behind the Green New Deal & the One Earth proposal.” Medium. February 21, 2019.
Wright, E (2021). Toward a Somatic Understanding of Climate Change, Trauma, and Transformative Healing — A [3 part] Series
Zimmerman, L. (2020). Trauma and the Discourse of Climate Change: Literature, Psychoanalysis and Denial. Routledge.