The Virtual Couch: Covid-19 Through a Psychoanalytic Lens

ISBN-13: 9781032140605 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 224 str.

Jain, Sonali

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Foreword. 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 Iranian Covid-19 Event: 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: Remembering and Reliving 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?