MEET THE IPA CLIMATE COMMITTEE

IPSO provides an important opportunity for the intercultural dialogue

between candidates across the psychoanalytical landscape

Sally Weintrobe, Chair (UK), Maria Luiza Gastal (Brazil), Delaram Habibi-Kohlen (Germany),

Lynne Zeavin (USA), Karyn Todes (Australia), Mary-Anne Smith (South Africa), Davide Rosso

(Italy), Valerie Curen (UK Candidates at the BPS)

The IPA Climate Committee works to bring psychoanalytic ideas to bear on understanding the climate emergency. We focus on the human climate and how it drives physical climate derangement and vice versa.

Areas of our current work include:

• Writing and giving talks on the relevance of psychoanalysis to understanding the climate emergency and how it affects our work with patients and society at large

• Focusing on climate anxiety and climate trauma in children and adolescents

• Working to embed the area of the climate and the environment as an integral part of psychoanalytic training

• Learning from other cultures how to perceive nature and living differently

• We undertook a research project in the Himalayas in India to study the effects of severe climate impacts on local people

The committee wants to hear your thoughts and feelings on the climate catastrophe and psychoanalysis. We are looking forward to a stimulating group reflection and discussion about a topic that can be difficult both for patients and analysts.

REGISTER:

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aQeonVwGQRmA1isZR1191w

Zoom meeting international times on April 27th 2024

Brasilia 10:00am London 2:00pm Tokyo 10:00pm

This meeting (lasting 2 hours) is for attendance by IPSO members only and will be conducted using the

Zoom meeting format, with participant cameras on. The Zoom link will be forwarded following registration.

For any enquiries, please e-mail Valerie Curen valeriecuren@hotmail.com London UK