From the Editors

In this issue of JAPA Review of Books, we are delighted to continue our review series of The Collected Works of D. W. Winnicott with an excellent review of Volume 10 by Jack Foehl and Christopher Bonovitz. Covering the last two years of Winnicott's life, this teaching volume offers twenty-one clinical cases where the reader will discover what Foehl and Bonovitz describe as “the magic of Winnicott exploring the unknown territory of a new case.” Shepherded by guest editors Adrienne Harris and Phillip Blumberg, Foehl and Bonovitz bring Winnicott's wit, wisdom, and clinical acumen to our pages.

Psychoanalysis and Climate Change

“Tell me,” the poet Mary Oliver (1992) famously wrote, “what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” In these past summer months, so many of us, if we were able, retreated to our own wild places to restore and refresh ourselves. Craving sustenance, renewal, hope for the future, and a sense of well-being and connection, we likely each noticed, in our travels, the environmental ravages of human activity: erosion of our beaches, changes in the wildlife we glimpsed, blighted foliage. Our brains are surely wired to respond with awe to the beauty of unspoiled nature, and we are grief-stricken to see the destruction of our vanishing landscapes.

Why, then, are we such poor stewards, such careless and uncaring inhabitants, seemingly so helpless in the face of undeniable signs of our planet's impending ruin? It is in part, as we psychoanalysts know, because humans are masterful deniers of reality when reality disturbs our equilibrium.

In this section—timely as we have now long returned from our summer wilds—we explore what psychoanalysis can bring to our

understanding of climate change, and of our psychic resistance to acknowledging the facts of environmental erosion and destruction.

Maureen Katz—an American psychoanalyst whose intellectual work and activism focus on race, class,