Cosimo Schinaia is a training and supervising psychoanalyst of SPI (Italian Psychoanalytic Society), a full member of the IPA, and former director of his book Department of Mental Health in Central Genoa. He received the IPA Climate Award in 2023 for his interests and studies on the relationships between psychoanalysis and ecology. His books On Paedophilia, Psychoanalysis and Architecture, Psychoanalysis and Ecology, and Outsider Art and Psychoanalytic Psychiatry are also published by Routledge and have been translated in many languages.

List of contributors

Presentation

Cosimo Schinaia

CHAPTER 1

"Hope in a Changing World between Individual Creativity and Collective Working Through"

Cosimo Schinaia

CHAPTER 2

"Radical Hope"

Gohar Homayounpour

CHAPTER 3

"A Changing World: Psychoanalysis between Catastrophe and Hope"Alfredo Lombardozzi

CHAPTER 4

"Catastrophic Fossil Culture and Other Desires of Relatedness"

Mauro Van Aken

CHAPTER 5

"Illusory Immunity and Actual Inhumanity"

Ronny Jaffè

CHAPTER 6

"Catastrophe versus Catastrophic Change. Between Psychoanalysis and Art"

Luca Caldironi

CHAPTER 7

"Climate Change and Adolescence: A Dangerous Collusion of internal and External Catastrophe"

Christine Franckx

CHAPTER 8

"Birth is not Destiny"

Orazio Attanasio

CHAPTER 9

"Our Food Future"

Attilio Giacosa

CHAPTER 10

"Pushing Back on Catastrophism: The Case for a New Nature Narrative"

Mark Halle

CHAPTER 11

"Catastrophism and Media Catastrophic Images"

Cosimo Schinaia