Against Catastrophism - Climate Change, Pandemics, and Hope for the Future

Against Catastrophism explores catastrophism from multiple vantage points and considers the impact of ongoing crisis on individuals. By assessing the value of a constant barrage of information about catastrophes, the chapters explore how we can avoid endorsing a closed-off vision of the future and instead unlock possibilities.

List of contents

List of contributors
Presentation
Cosimo Schinaia
CHAPTER 1
"Hope in a Changing World between Individual Creativity and Collective Working Through"
Cosimo Schinaia
CHAPTER 2
"Radical Hope"
Gohar Homayounpour
CHAPTER 3
"A Changing World: Psychoanalysis between Catastrophe and Hope"Alfredo Lombardozzi
CHAPTER 4
"Catastrophic Fossil Culture and Other Desires of Relatedness"
Mauro Van Aken
CHAPTER 5
"Illusory Immunity and Actual Inhumanity"
Ronny Jaffè
CHAPTER 6
"Catastrophe versus Catastrophic Change. Between Psychoanalysis and Art"
Luca Caldironi
CHAPTER 7
"Climate Change and Adolescence: A Dangerous Collusion of internal and External Catastrophe"
Christine Franckx
CHAPTER 8
"Birth is not Destiny"
Orazio Attanasio
CHAPTER 9
"Our Food Future"
Attilio Giacosa
CHAPTER 10
"Pushing Back on Catastrophism: The Case for a New Nature Narrative"
Mark Halle
CHAPTER 11
"Catastrophism and Media Catastrophic Images"
Cosimo Schinaia

About the author

Cosimo Schinaia is a training and supervising psychoanalyst of SPI (Italian Psychoanalytic Society), a full member of the IPA, and former director of his book Department of Mental Health in Central Genoa. He received the IPA Climate Award in 2023 for his interests and studies on the relationships between psychoanalysis and ecology. His books On Paedophilia, Psychoanalysis and Architecture, Psychoanalysis and Ecology, and Outsider Art and Psychoanalytic Psychiatry are also published by Routledge and have been translated in many languages.

Summary

Against Catastrophism explores catastrophism from multiple vantage points and considers the impact of ongoing crisis on individuals. By assessing the value of a constant barrage of information about catastrophes, the chapters explore how we can avoid endorsing a closed-off vision of the future and instead unlock possibilities.

Product details

• Authors: Cosimo (International Psychoanalytical A Schinaia
• Assisted by: Cosimo Schinaia (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.04.2025
• EAN: 9781032812007
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3281200-7
• No. of pages: 164
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Climate Change, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Trauma & shock, Psychotherapy, Trauma and shock, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis