ABSTRACT

This book is one of the first systematic examinations on the looming mental health crisis emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic from a psychoanalytic perspective.

Bringing together practising therapists from Asia and Europe, this book:

  • analyses themes like anxiety, depression, sexuality, loss and death through clinical vignettes
  • highlights how children, adolescents and adults have been responding to the pandemic
  • explores how personal and collective trauma are mourned, remembered, repeated and worked through
  • studies deep-seated prejudices and fears
  • focuses on how the pandemic has stimulated exceptional manifestations of human solidarity and creativity

Comprehensive and practical, this book will be an essential guide for mental health professionals, counsellors, therapists and medical doctors treating psychological trauma.

chapter |9 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|10 pages

Play

Seeing children's inner worlds

chapter 3|9 pages

Psychic withdrawal to dreaming

Gliding the spectrum during COVID-19

chapter 4|14 pages

Against psychoanalytic form

Witnessing the unconscious with Lacan

chapter 7|16 pages

Between contact and contagion

Sex, shame and the screen

chapter 9|5 pages

The paradox of the COVID-19 event in Iran

At least we are not alone

chapter 11|13 pages

The waves of loss

chapter 12|11 pages

Living in the times of pandemic

Reliving and remembering loss and trauma

chapter 13|14 pages

Stairs and waves

On the shores of 'social' distancing

chapter 14|10 pages

Unmasked

The dread of being able to kill