Chronic environmental change: Emerging ‘psychoterratic’ syndromes

By Glenn A. Albrecht. 2011

237 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Complementary and Manual Therapy, General Health Professions, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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In Complementary and Manual Therapy

1. P. Pihkala
2. S. Clayton

In General Health Professions

1. P. Pihkala
2. S. Clayton

In Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

1. P. Pihkala
2. S. Clayton

Citations in the corpus

• ECO-ANXIETY, TRAGEDY, AND HOPE: PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SPIRITUAL DIMENSIONS OF CLIMATE CHANGE (2018, background): “I introduced Glenn Albrecht’s typology of various psychic reactions to environmental problems and especially his concept of “solastalgia,” a form of environmental grief generated by losing important aspects of one’s home environment.”
• Eco-Anxiety and Environmental Education (2020, background): “Thus, scholars widely agree that it is reasonable to worry about the ecological crisis and climate crisis [43–46], but they di ff er in their views about what terms should be used and how.”
• Climate anxiety: Psychological responses to climate change. (2020, background): “Albrecht (2011) described these syndromes as “existential and not biomedical” in origin, reflecting the idea that perceptions of change rather than direct sensory experience are the cause of the emotional response.”
• Understanding Eco-anxiety: A Systematic Scoping Review of Current Literature and Identified Knowledge Gaps (2021, background): “For example, Albrecht [5] coined the term ‘eco-anxiety’ to describe a chronic fear of environmental doom [6], but ecoanxiety is also defined as mental distress or anxiety associated with worsening environmental conditions [3] or anxiety experienced in response to the ecological crisis [7].”
• Climate change and mental health: risks, impacts and priority actions (2018, background): “The overarching threats of a changing climate, can also incite despair and hopelessness as actions to address the ‘wicked problem’ of climate change seem intangible or insignificant in comparison to the scale and magnitude of the threats [29].”