The Climate and Environmental Crisis: A Primer for Psychologists

Wendy is a psychologist/psychoanalyst practicing in New York City. She is on the faculty of the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis, where she has co-taught a course on Ecopsychoanalysis with Elizabeth Allured. She is also on the faculty of the Adelphi University Postgraduate Program in Couple Therapy. She has led workshops for university students on building emotional resilience in the face of climate distress, and has presented on the climate crisis, locally and internationally, to both mental health professionals and psychoanalytic audiences.

Elizabeth Allured, Psy.D., Co-Chair, Education and Training (Professional Development), Board of Directors. Elizabeth is a psychologist and psychoanalyst practicing in Manhasset, New York. She is on the teaching faculty at the Suffolk Institute and at Adelphi University’s postgraduate programs in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. She has published papers on the relationship between mental health and the nonhuman environment, and has been presenting ideas about this relationship at international conferences since 2007.