Donald Moss

Program Chair of APsaA

With 40+ years of clinical experience, author of 4 books, 60+ articles, winner of the Elizabeth Young-Bruehl award from the IPA for his work against prejudice, current Program Chair of APsaA, Moss is a founding member of Green Gang, a group of analysts and scientists focusing on climate change and its denial. Recent articles include “Our Crying Planet” (Psychoanalytic Quarterly) and “Defensive Representational Strategies in a Time of Cataclysmic Climate Change” (Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies). Just returned from giving a Plenary Address in South Africa, “On Having Whiteness”, he is working on his next book, “Hating, Abhorring and Wishing to Destroy”, appearing in 2020.

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Living in the Anthropocene

2:30pm on Saturday, April 27th, 2019

Past Event

What underlying conceptual questions prompted this new characterization of our planet’s present era? What does this imply for the distinctions we have become accustomed to: between human subjects (however varied) and the non-human realm, between nature and artifice, between agency and objectivity? These conceptual questions are not simply academic; they are asked with a view… read more »