When Dr Thomas Doherty published his groundbreaking paper 'The Psychological Impacts of Global Climate Change' in American Psychologist over a decade ago, he predicted a perfect storm brewing for a mental health crisis of global proportions. Today that crisis has arrived. We are more anxious than ever, seized by an impossible new source of mental anguish: climate change and the global environmental crisis. Doherty, a pioneer in this crucial, fast-growing field, recognizes that this is a very real crisis as well as an existential one. The magnitude of our fear is so great, that many of us...
When Dr Thomas Doherty published his groundbreaking paper 'The Psychological Impacts of Global Climate Change' in American Psychologist over a decade ...