An Audience With: Paul Hoggett

In this event, Sally Weintrobe will engage Paul Hoggett in a dialogue around some of the themes arising from his recent book Paradise Lost? Climate Change and the Human Condition. Their conversation will focus in particular upon the nature of reactionary states of mind in the context of the deepening climate crisis. 

About the speakers

Originally trained at the Lincoln, Paul Hoggett is psychoanalytic psychotherapist and member of the Severnside Institute for Psychotherapy. Prior to training he was an academic and Group Relations consultant. He is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at UWE, Bristol and a founding editor of the journal Organisational and Social Dynamics.  

He was co-founder of the Climate Psychology Alliance (CPA) and was its first chair in 2012. His books in this area include Climate Psychology: On Indifference to Disaster (Palgrave, 2019), (with Wendy Hollway, Chris Robertson and Sally Weintrobe) Climate Psychology: A Matter of Life and Death (Phoenix, 2022) and most recently Paradise Lost? The Climate Crisis and the Human Condition (Simplicity Institute, 2023).

Sally Weintrobe is a psychoanalyst who writes and talks on the climate emergency. She is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytic Society, a longstanding Member of the Climate Psychology Alliance (CPA), and Chair of the International Psychoanalytic Association’s Committee on Climate. Weintrobe (2012) Editor Engaging with Climate Change.  Weintrobe (2021) Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis: Neoliberal Exceptionalism and the Culture of Uncare.