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Rarely a day goes by without dire news about global warming. The consequences of climate change are apparent daily as we watch ice caps melt, wildfires blaze, and droughts starve the global landscape. These horrors present themselves to us in a moment when psychoanalysis has only just begun to widen the angle of its lens to theorize psychic location in the nonhuman environment. That the effects of global warming are most dire for Black and Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) and subaltern communities alerts us further to the need for psychoanalysis to frame interventions with an ear to inequality and justice. There is tremendous hope to be found in the diverse contributions we received in response to our call for Snapshots on the Climate Emergency and Climate Activism by an international and multigenerational roster of psychoanalytic clinicians, scholars, and activists. Their short essays present a sobering account of the climate crisis seen from a variety of psychoanalytic perspectives while offering a beacon for mindful practice no matter how grim the prognosis.
Lauren Levine, Ph.D., Jack Foehl, Ph.D., Stephen Hartman, Ph.D. and Amy Schwartz-Cooney, Ph.D.
Joint Editors-in-Chief, Psychoanalytic Dialogues