title: Ecological Psychology: Healing the Split Between Planet and Self
author:  Deborah DuNann Winter 
description: Deborah Du Nann Winter is a professor of psychology at Whitman College.
zlib_text:  In this groundbreaking book, Renee Lertzman applies psychoanalytic theory 
  and psychosocial research to the issue of public engagement and public apa-
  thy in response to chronic ecological threats. By highlighting unconscious and 
  affective dimensions of contemporary ecological issues, Lertzman deconstructs 
  the idea that there is a gap between what people care about and what is actu-
  ally carried out in policy and personal practice. In doing so, she presents an 
  innovative way to think about and design engagement practices and policy 
  interventions.  
   Based on key qualitative fieldwork and in-depth interviews conducted in 
  Green Bay, Wisconsin, each chapter provides a psychosocial, psychoanalytic per-
  spective on subjectivity, affect and identity and considers what this means for 
  understanding behaviour in relation to environmental crises and climate change. 
  The book argues for a theory of environmental melancholia that accounts for 
  the ways in which people experience profound lo