Eco‐anxiety in everyday life
Facing the anxiety and fear of a degraded Earth in analytic work
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9056576 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen J Foster (0000-0002-7955-2240, Boulder Colorado USA) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1363-1385 |
| Publication date | 2022-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Analytical Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8774 • E-ISSN: 1465-5922 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-5922.12860 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 19 |
This paper focuses on eco‐anxiety, an over‐arching term used to describe anxiety caused by the climate crisis and the impacts of environmental contamination, environmental disasters, species extinctions and ecological system degradation. A brief literature review of eco‐anxiety is provided from both psychoanalytic and Jungian perspectives which includes a discussion of Jung’s view of our split with nature, displacement anxiety, precarity, climate change denial, and anticipatory anxiety. The author draws on his own theory of what he calls the Nature archetype to explicate the psychological changes brought about by our environmental crisis that cause increased anxiety, depression, PTSD and which, sometimes, lead to suicide. Two clinical vignettes are provided. The first shows how eco‐complexes cluster around and interweave with generalized anxiety disorder, and the way in which eco‐anxiety can be incorporated into a fusional complex that draws the analyst into a fusional field experienced as a state of connection and disconnection over both personal and collective material. The second vignette illustrates the way in which eco‐complexes, eco‐anxiety and environmental issues are interwoven with an early childhood abuse history
Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis
Environmental Melancholia
Thirty Years of Terror Management Theory
Climate anxiety
Anxiety and the Ecological Crisis
Climate and environmental science denial
We need to (find a way to) talk about … Eco-anxiety
The Inquisition of Climate Science
Development and validation of a measure of climate change anxiety
Climate Change Skepticism and Denial
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |