Climate Change

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There are moments in history that require us to step back and refocus, to view the issues before us through a new lens and from a different vantage point. We are all now sitting squarely in such a moment.

On Climate, COVID, and Race

In 2009 I attended the United Nations Copenhagen Climate Conference. The general thought at the time was that it was the last best opportunity to keep the world from warming over 2 degrees centigrade.

A New IQ: Testing Smart in the Anthropocene

Because climate instability is a global challenge, America and Australia, on different sides of the world, can model how global partnerships can work.

While Australia Burns: What Psychiatrists Can Learn From Each Other

The increase in repeated disasters and associated social stressors linked to global warming is likely to affect the mental wellbeing of billions of persons in the 21st century.

Disaster Response, Mental Health, and Community Resilience

Environmental factors in addition to climate change-air pollution, toxins, noise-seem to have detrimental psychological repercussions.

Toward A Bio-Psycho-Social-Eco Model of Psychiatry

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Climate medicine: What was once on the radar of just a handful of physicians has exploded into awareness, alarm, and sometimes debate and skepticism. No matter how you look at it, psychiatrists are on the front lines.

Climate Psychiatry Year in Review

The Clean Air Act (CAA) turned 55 years old last year. Most millennials and Gen Xers have had little idea what this legislation has meant for us, even though it may have given us each almost a year of productive life.

Who Knew? The Implications of One Environmental Policy for Mental Health

A radical and urgent perspective about the realities of climate change.

The End of Human Civilization

Nature provides both physical and psychological benefits. How does this healing through exposure to nature occur?

Green Spaces

Hurricane Maria was the wakeup call many Puerto Ricans needed to become active in social justice efforts. Their story serves as an example of transformational resilience.

Puerto Rico Se Levanta (“Puerto Rico Rises”): From Denial and Passivity to Action and Hope

No doubt the climate is changing dramatically, and the evidence of profound heat waves and their impacts confront us in large and small ways on a regular basis.

The Impacts of Extreme Heat on Mental Health

A climate change and mental health pioneer goes down memory lane with the Times.

A Decade of Psychiatry and Our Climate

All together, right now, no matter what it takes-only this attitude can unite our response to the climate catastrophe that is the imminent consequence of our many small everyday actions.

It Takes a Village to Take Care of a Planet

There’s an old joke about change: How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb? Just one, but the light bulb really has to want to change.

Cassandra or Happy Warrior: How Paradoxes of Psychiatry Can Sustain the Green New Deal

The profound effects of climate change on mental health have become increasingly difficult to ignore. 

Divestment in Fossil Fuels: A Preventive Public Health Strategy

While some psychiatrists may doubt the connection between climate disruption and psychiatric disorders, the evidence is growing stronger every day.

Climate Disruption and the Psychiatric Patient

We cannot protect our patients without protecting our planet. This means a personal and professional commitment to green our activities by considering the carbon effects of how we do our work.

Trouble in Paradise: Carbon-Fuel Air Pollution Linked to Disorders Across the Lifespan

When engaging in professional discourse on controversial topics, how can psychiatrists respect the therapeutic boundary with patients when their own fears are heightened?

The Changing Face of Psychiatry in the Age of Climate Change

Climate is both a public health and a psychological issue and these aspects are intertwined. In this article, particular clinical situations in working with climate anxiety are discussed.

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