- 180 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Play: Seeing children's inner worlds
- 2 Reflecting and integrating the inner child during challenging times
- 3 Psychic withdrawal to dreaming: Gliding the spectrum during COVID-19
- 4 Against psychoanalytic form: Witnessing the unconscious with Lacan
- 5 A smothered community dialogue during the pandemic
- 6 Breaking down or breaking through? Varying shades and states of psychic lockdown and emergence of some movement within
- 7 Between contact and contagion: Sex, shame and the screen
- 8 Psychosocial reflections on destructiveness in the youth
- 9 The paradox of the COVID-19 event in Iran: At least we are not alone
- 10 What does therapy look like in times of lockdown? A view from Paris
- 11 The waves of loss
- 12 Living in the times of pandemic: Reliving and remembering loss and trauma
- 13 Stairs and waves: On the shores of ‘social’ distancing
- 14 Unmasked: The dread of being able to kill
- 15 Where are your brains?
- Index