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Volume 33 - Number 1 - Winter 2026,
Pages: 1 - 129
Section: SPECIAL ISSUE ON PSYCHOHISTORICAL INSIGHTS ON ANGER, ANXIETY, AND FEAR IN OUR FRIGHTENED WORLD
Reibstein, R. (2026). Anxiety and hope have been on the agenda. Clio’s Psyche, 33(1), 21-26. https://doi.org/10.70763/71e9c6620d381d60196ebe694840aaaa
Anxiety and Hope Have Been on the Agenda (article)
Keywords: academia, anxiety, collective response, constitutional crisis, dreamwork, environmentalism, fear, hope, political crisis, pragmatic idealism, psychobiography, psychohistory
Abstract: In the face of the assault on democracy, this article explores how the process of figuring out what one can do is therapeutic, and how it helps to talk about rampant anxiety. This can form the basis for learning how to work together better—an opportunity democracy provides toward creating a better future. The view of the future being based on legitimate power is stronger and more sustainable than primitive competitiveness.
Abstract: In the face of the assault on democracy, this article explores how the process of figuring out what one can do is therapeutic, and how it helps to talk about rampant anxiety. This can form the basis for learning how to work together better—an opportunity democracy provides toward creating a better future. The view of the future being based on legitimate power is stronger and more sustainable than primitive competitiveness.
Authors:
Rick Reibstein
Rick Reibstein, JD, after 27 years of helping to develop the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Program, expanded his environmental teaching. He was recently awarded the inaugural Champion of Sustainability award of the Institute for Global Sustainability at Boston University. He writes poetry, walks, takes pictures, gardens, cooks, helps people suffering from contamination or noise, enjoys listening to psychological professionals talk, loves his family and friends, and sometimes gets letters to the editor or articles printed. He recently wrote many of his ideas down in a book called Reconstructing Environmental Governance (2022), published by Rowman & Littlefield. He can be contacted at .
