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Facing Climate Change

Disciplines:
psychology
environmental science

Summary

Jeffrey Kiehl's integration of climate science with Jungian depth psychology — arguing that the psychological and spiritual dimensions of the climate crisis are as important as the scientific ones.

Core Contribution

Climate grief and the collective shadow: the psychological unconscious dimensions of humanity's collective failure to respond adequately to climate change. Jungian framework applied to collective behavior: the climate crisis as a manifestation of collective shadow — the disowned destructive aspects of industrial civilization.

Historical Influences

C.G. Jung Climate Science

Intellectual Lineage

Jungian Psychology Environmental Psychology

Allied Works

Psyche and the EarthActive Hope

Contemporaries & Peers

Active Hope

Minds Influenced

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Intellectual Posterity

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