Explore the Psychological Effects of Global Climate Disruption
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Dr. Lise Van Susteren is a general and forensic psychiatrist in Washington, DC, and expert on the physical and mental health effects of climate disruption. She is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral at George Washington University and co-founder of Climate Psychiatry Alliance. A frequent contributor on television, radio and in the print media, she is also the expert witness on the psychological damages to children in Juliana v US Government, Held v Montana and the People V Arctic Oil before the European Court of Human Rights. In 2006 Dr. Van Susteren sought the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate from Maryland. Her book, Emotional Inflammation Discover your Triggers and Reclaim Your Equilibrium During Anxious Times was published in 2020.
GET TO KNOW LISE
ABOUT LISE
After receiving her medical degree from the University of Paris she practiced medicine in West Africa, at community health centers and homeless shelters in the metropolitan Washington DC. In addition to community organizing on climate issues, Van Susteren serves on the Boards of Earth Day Network, Physicians for Social Responsibility and is a co-founder of "Climate Psychiatry Alliance," and of “Climate Psychology Alliance – North America “, professional groups dedicated to promoting awareness and action on climate from a mental health perspective. Van Susteren is the expert witness on the psychological damages to young people from inaction on climate in Juliana v US Government, in Held v Montana and in the European Court of Human Rights.
She is a frequent contributor on television, radio and in the print media. In 2006 Dr. Van Susteren sought the Democratic nomination to the US Senate from Maryland. Her book, “Emotional Inflammation – Discover Your Triggers and Reclaim Your Equilibrium During Anxious Times” was published in April 2020.
A CAREER OF DIVERSE EXPERIENCE
LVS is an experienced writer, speaker, and general and forensic psychiatrist. Her interests include issues regarding mental health generally and specifically the emotional toll of the climate crisis, toxic contaminants, environmental degradation and declining biodiversity, and how living in harmony with the natural world restores our mental health.
She is a frequent guest on radio and television, and is regularly quoted in popular press. An ardent activist, she is the co-founder of Interfaith Moral Action on Climate (IMAC), The Climate Psychiatry Alliance and the Climate Psychology Alliance, and is a member of the boards of many national environmental organizations.
Her book “Emotional Inflammation”, co-authored with Stacey Colino, was published in April 2020.
IN THE NEWS AND MEDIA
FEATURED MEDIA
FEATURED NEWS
Editorial Perspective: A parable for climate collapse?
‘Speak up – even if your voice trembles’ – because every day more people are ready to listen…. Warnings about climate have made young people legitimately fearful, depressed, and angry. Many feel abandoned.
READ NOWWeathering the Weather - Mental Health Professionals & Climate Change
Mental-health professionals are trying to figure out how to talk about the climate. A professional group of like-minded clinicians, the Climate Psychology Alliance, has created a searchable network of these doctors online, and a website called inclusive-therapists.com now allows patients to search for therapists who deal with climate anxiety.
READ NOWLISE'S EVENTS
EVENT
TOPIC
DATE
Keynote Speaker
Illinois Psychiatric Society
November 27, 2021
Earth Rangers: Panelist “Children’s Health and Climate Action”
Zoom
May 18, 2021
The Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study’s 2021 Dorpat Lecture: “Psychoanalysis and Climate”
Zoom
May 6, 2021
American Psychiatric Association Annual Conference - “Enhancing Use of the DSM-5 Outline for Cultural Formulation: Linking Social Determinants of Mental Health to Structural Competency Through V Codes”
Zoom
May 1, 2021
Sustainability Defined Podcast Interview - Climate Change Anxiety
Zoom
April 22, 2021
Academy of Integrative Health Medicine: Climate and Covid – Mental Health Toll
Zoom
March 25, 2021
NPR Affiliate: WNPU Cincinnati Public Radio Interview - “Climate Aware Therapist Network”
Cincinnati Public Radio
March 10, 2021
The Education, Economics, Environmental, Climate and Health Organization (EEECHO), the Gulfport Section-National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice (DSCEJ)
Radio Broadcast
February 25, 2021
Climate Conversations: Washington Psychiatric Society
Zoom
February 1, 2021
Royal College of Psychiatrists, United Kingdom: Mental Health Impacts of Climate Instability on Young People and Recommendations
United Kingdom
February 1, 2021
Presentation to Medical Students at University of Colorado - Overview: Climate Instability - The Emotional Toll
University of Colorado
February 1, 2021
Oasis – “Emotional Inflammation and Climate” with Stacey Colino
Washington DC
January 1, 2021
“Courageous Medicine” Podcast with Dr. Ashley McClure
Podcast
January 1, 2021
Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis; “Framing the Climate Crisis – An Overview”
Online
December 5, 2020
Abbey Strauss, M.D. Podcast: Mental Distress - What does inflammation have to do with it?
Online
August 16, 2020
Podcast: The Poetry of Predicament
Online
August 14, 2020
Address to Special Olympics: Isolation and the Pandemic
Online
August 11, 2020
Climate Reality Leadership Training (Mentor)
Online
July 18, 2020
“Climate Change, the Emotional Toll” Eco America Webinar Series
Online
June 4, 2020
“Resilience Starts with Me” Mental Health Webinar
Kresge Foundation
May 27, 2020
Psych Summit 2020
Colorado and New York Psychiatric Societies
May 27, 2020
National Prayer Breakfast (NRCCC) For the Love of Forests (rescheduled)
Online
May 26, 2020
Politics and Prose Bookstore "Signing" – Emotional Inflammation
Online
May 23, 2020
America Meditating Radio with Sister Jenna
Online
May 22, 2020
BBNR health podcast with Doro Bush
Online
May 14, 2020
Climate Crisis and Clinical Medicine Virtual Elective for Medical Students
Emory University Medical School
May 12, 2020
"Breaking Down Silos" for the American Psychiatric Society
Philadelphia, PA
April 29, 2020
Earth Day on the National Mall
Washington D.C.
April 25, 2020
Climate Trauma
Bill McKibbon’s class at Middlebury College
April 22, 2020
Sounds True Publishing: Podcast with Tami Simon
Emotional Inflammation: Discover Your Triggers and Reclaim Your Equilibrium During Anxious Times
April 19, 2020
Women in the World (Rescheduled)
New York City Climate Disruption
April 1, 2020
Johns Hopkins University - Bloomberg School of Public Health
Climate Change and Mental Health
March 27, 2020
Climate Elders National Call
Climate Traumas and the Pandemic
March 24, 2020
Covey Club - Lori Miller Kase interview
Emotional Inflammation
March 20, 2020
Barclays Bank, New York City
Climate Traumas
January 8, 2020
CONNECT WITH THE EXPERT
LVS Is an experienced and effective public speaker on a range of mental health issues which affect our wellbeing. In her many different and original presentations, designed specifically with the audience in mind, she emphasizes interactive dialogues and small group engagements to enliven the experience of learning about issues that are important to them. In this day of tumultuous breaking news, she also knows how to calm us down - by helping us identify and unpack our reactor types and foster better relationships by showing us how to better understand each other.
Hidden in plain sight but not always in our consciousness, she shares a menu of natural remedies we can use to restore our emotional equilibrium. And weaving in the latest in 21st Century neuroscience - she will share the essentially untold story of why, as we seek to address social justice issues while finding purpose to define our lives, going from being a bystander to an upstander has proved to be the “magic sauce”.
