Alex Trope
Alex Trope, MD, MSc is a psychiatrist, climate organizer, and advocate for the integration of the mental health system into all aspects of climate mitigation and adaptation. He believes the climate crisis is driven not just by the accumulation of fossil-fuel pollution and degradation of ecosystems, but by the accumulation of manipulative media sources and the degradation of public trust. During medical school, he was a UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative Fellow, focused on climate communication through a health lens. During residency, he became the youngest founder of the Climate Psychiatry Alliance (CPA, 501(c)3), which organizes within academic and institutional psychiatry to confront the climate challenge full-on in all its class-based, place-based and racialized forms. Through CPA and Climate Psychology Alliance-North America, he helped launch a “Climate-Aware Therapist” referral system to connect interested clients to therapists. He is a new father, channeling fierce protection for his daughter into new depths of intergenerational climate justice. He has published research on mindfulness in at-risk youth and psychedelic-assisted group therapy for older, long-term HIV/AIDS survivors. He is the author, along with his CPA colleagues Drs. Janet Lewis and Beth Haase, of a novel approach to psychotherapy focused on the synthesis of opposing psychological forces that often underlie climate anxiety and other emerging forms of eco-distress (“Climate Dialectics in Psychotherapy: Holding Open the Space Between Abyss and Advance”; doi: 10.1521/pdps.2020.48.3.271). He lives and works in the unceded territories of Chochenyo and Ramaytush Ohlone peoples (San Francisco Bay Area). He writes about the personal and planetary boundaries that unite and diversify life through his Boundaries newsletter (boundaries.ghost.io) and personal website (www.alextrope.com).
Mission
To advance the quality and effectiveness of psychiatric care through advocacy, professional education and camaraderie.
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