{"id":1915,"date":"2013-08-23T04:25:02","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T08:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiscontemplativelife.com\/?p=1915"},"modified":"2013-08-23T04:25:02","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T08:25:02","slug":"psychologist-mary-pipher-on-americas-biggest-social-taboo-psychology-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/2013\/08\/23\/psychologist-mary-pipher-on-americas-biggest-social-taboo-psychology-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychologist Mary Pipher on America&#8217;s Biggest Social Taboo | Psychology Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/rsrc.psychologytoday.com\/files\/imagecache\/article-inline-half\/blogs\/129518\/2013\/08\/131502-131074.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #008080;\">This is a GREAT interview with Mary Pipher about what she describes as America&#8217;s biggest social taboo: Climate change. Here is just a taste:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Well, one thing I\u2019d say to America as a client on the couch is that the amount of psychic energy it spends in denial around this urgent and terrifying issue is enormous. This resistance to facing climate change isn\u2019t a passive process: It\u2019s a very active process that requires us to continually disconnect from our senses, our emotions, our bodies, our friends, our neighbors and even reality.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Read the whole thing here. It&#8217;s not long but its good.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/america-the-couch\/201308\/psychologist-mary-pipher-americas-biggest-social-taboo\">Psychologist Mary Pipher on America&#8217;s Biggest Social Taboo | Psychology Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This is a GREAT interview with Mary Pipher about what she describes as America&#8217;s biggest social taboo: Climate change. Here is just a taste:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[115,310,472],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}