The Covid Trail

Psychodynamic Explorations

Birgitte Bonnerup, Halina Brunning, Mario Perini, Barbara Wren, Richard Morgan-Jones, Winnie Fei and Zhang Jian Li, Tim Dartington, Claudia Nagel, Simon Western, Andrzej Leder, Rob Stuart, Olya Khaleelee, Anthony Berendt, Leslie Brissett, Leslie Brissett, M. Gerard Fromm, Halina Brunning, Olya Khaleelee, Halina Brunn, Halina Brunning, Olya Khaleelee, Halina Brunning, Olya Khaleelee

• Publisher: Phoenix Publishing House
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781800131361
• eBook ISBN: 9781800131828
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Industrial & Organizational Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Contributors include Anthony Berendt, Birgitte Bonnerup, Leslie B. Brissett, Halina Brunning, Tim Dartington, Winnie Fei, M. Gerard Fromm, Zhang Jian Li, Olya Khaleelee, Andrzej Leder, Richard Morgan-Jones, Claudia Nagel, Mario Perini, Rob Stuart, Simon Western, and Barbara-Anne Wren.

The idea of The Covid Trail developed at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. Using the language of psychoanalysis and system psychodynamic thinking, it seeks to find a way to think about and understand the post-pandemic world from an international perspective. Motivated by a desire to express what is hidden, dangerous, and difficult to express, this book takes us on a trail. It starts with disquiet, disorientation, and loss in Part I. Through attempts to make sense of it all, a clear, albeit meandering and dangerous, path to follow is created, which snakes throughout the book. Part II takes a closer look at despair and resilience and pairs them through balancing power with vulnerability. Part III delves into the realm of psychoanalysis, to seek solace, or at least a deeper understanding of the phenomenon of the pandemic, and examines how we have sown our own environmental destruction. The final part offers a glimpse into the post-Covidian world and the longer and deeper impact of Covid upon our bodies, relationships, constructs, and civilisation.

The volume ends on a trail of each chapter's essence, taking the reader from shock, disorientation, and fear through mobilisation of resilience, a realisation of the enormity of the changes humanity faces, and an attempt to comprehend these processes as a guide to this permanent "new normal". All those with a desire to understand the way the world has changed will want to explore The Covid Trail.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title
• Full Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• About the editors and contributors
• Introduction
• Part I: The shock of the new
• Part II: Reparation, resilience, recovery
• Part III: The fourth humiliation of humankind
• Part IV: Our new Covidian world
• Follow the Covid Trail
• Conclusions
• Index