Climate Psychiatry Year in Review

In Why Psychiatrists Should Go Green and A Decade of Psychiatry and Our Climate, climate change and mental health pioneer H. Steven Moffic, MD, takes us down memory lane with the Times.

In the Room With Climate Anxiety. 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 in this article by Janet Lewis, MD.

The Changing Face of Psychiatry in the Age of Climate Change. When engaging in professional discourse on controversial topics, how can psychiatrists respect the therapeutic boundary with patients when their own fears are heightened? By Elizabeth A. Varas, MD.

Trouble in Paradise: Carbon-Fuel Air Pollution Linked to Disorders Across the Lifespan. 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. By Elizabeth Haase, MD.

Climate Disruption and the Psychiatric Patient. While some psychiatrists may doubt the connection between climate disruption and psychiatric disorders, the evidence is growing stronger every day. By Burns Woodward, MD.

Divestment in Fossil Fuels: A Preventive Public Health Strategy. The profound effects of climate change on mental health have become increasingly difficult to ignore. By Robin Cooper, MD.

Cassandra or Happy Warrior: How Paradoxes of Psychiatry Can Sustain the Green New Deal. 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. Michael A. Kalm, MD.

Puerto Rico Se Levanta (“Puerto Rico Rises”): From Denial and Passivity to Action and Hope. 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. By Carissa Cabán-Alemán, MD.

Green Spaces. Nature provides both physical and psychological benefits. How does this healing through exposure to nature occur? By Lorin Young, MD, MSc, FRCPC.

The End of Human Civilization. A radical and urgent perspective about the realities of climate change is needed, writes Beth Mark, MD.

It Takes a Village to Take Care of a Planet. 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. By Elizabeth Haase, MD, and the Climate Psychiatry Alliance.

It Takes a Village to Take Care of a Planet. 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. By Elizabeth Haase, MD, and the Climate Psychiatry Alliance.

Who Knew? The Implications of One Environmental Policy for Mental Health. The Clean Air Act 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. Benson Ku, MD, reports.