Harry Guntrip Foundation. Our feelings about the climate emergency.
Talks & Interviews
Online Webinars during COVID have enabled me to give talks internationally (No Air Miles)
18 July 2020 Melbourne
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Association of Australasia (PPAA). Our feelings about the climate emergency.
17 June 2020 London
Institute of Psychoanalysis Political Mind Seminars. Noah’s Arkism 21st Century Style.
23 May 2020 London
Freud Museum Ecological Madness conference. Keynote speaker.
Dec. 2016. Reflections on Trevor Paglen’s photographs at The Photographer’s Gallery
Reflections on Trevor Paglen’s photographs at The Photographer’s Gallery Contribution to Cotton and Whitehead (2016) Thinkers in Residence, an Ebook for Thinking. The Photographers Gallery: London. see ebook by Sally Weintrobe I’m with Elizabeth Cotton at The Photographer’s Gallery looking at the photographs that won Trevor...
30 November 2016. Good leaders and Bad Leaders
Talk given at Climate Psychology Alliance conference The Psychology of Climate Action: New Perspectives on Leadership. Good leaders and bad leaders The psychoanalyst Irma Brenman Pick said good leaders give a home to our caring reparative parts. She meant that good leaders ‘contain’ us. They:...
21 Nov 2015. The New Imagination: a tale of two carrots
To address climate change we need to care more. Only felt care gives us the strength to act for the good and sustains our will to act in caring ways in tough dark times. Talk given at CONFER Conference The Psychology of Inspired Collective Climate Change Action The...
10 Sept 2015. The new imagination in the culture of uncare.
“Sue Roaf, in a wonderful phrase, called for architects to “reengineer their dreams” to build for a sustainable future. This means nothing less than restructuring the architectural imagination. … ” Opening of keynote address by Sally Weintrobe to SHEFFIELD SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 10 – 12 SEPT 2015: “ARCHITECTURE AND...
18 April 2015. Hope resides in mending the human heart and mind.
Genuine hope, unlike false hope, is a trusted steadfast belief, strengthened by the part of us that cares, that we will find a way to face things truthfully, even when this brings difficult feelings and moral challenges, and even when we find ourselves stuck at times. Here is a...
21 Feb 2015. Moral injury in the culture of uncare.
Joe Glenton, a British soldier, was deployed to Afghanistan in 2006 and went AWOL rather than return for a second tour. After months of wandering, taking drugs and feeling lost, he gave himself up. The army found him guilty of desertion and he served four of a nine-month custodial...