Back then I had started a fledging online group called Psychiatrists for Environmental Action and Knowledge (PEAK), which later morphed into the Climate Psychiatry Alliance (CPA). One issue is determining what is a normal response to climate change, and what is not. I think that ignoring the prevention of continuing climate change would be a collective therapeutic mistake. The more adverse the climate change, the more mental health problems for humans, let alone the impact on most living things. Not arresting climate change adequately will certainly increase the need for climate-informed psychotherapy that we do not desire, do we?

Source: New York Times October 23, 2023 13:14 UTC