The virtual couch COVID-19 through a psychoanalytic lens / edited by Sonali Jain.
| Other author | Jain, Sonali. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023. |
| Description | pages cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Play : seeing children's inner worlds / Nupur Dhingra Paiva and Shweta Dharamdasani -- Reflecting and integrating the inner child during challenging times / Rekha Sapra -- Psychic withdrawal to dreaming : gliding the spectrum during Covid-19 / Neetu Sarin -- Against psychoanalytic form : witnessing the unconscious with Lacan / Ahmad Fuad Rahmat -- A smothered community dialogue during the pandemic / Jhuma Basak -- Breaking down or breaking through? Varying shades and states of psychic lockdown and emergence of some movement within / Namita Bhutani -- Between contact and contagion : sex, shame and the screen / Rashi Kapoor -- Psychosocial reflections on destructiveness in the youth / Ashis Roy -- The paradox of the Iranian Covid-19 event : at least we are not alone / Gohar Homayounpour -- What does therapy look like in times of lockdown? A view from Paris / Anne Gagnant and Benjamin Levy -- The waves of loss / Surabhika Maheshwari -- Living in the times of pandemic : remembering and reliving loss and trauma / Shweta Dharamdasani -- Stairs and waves : on the shores of 'social' distancing / Ananya Kushwaha -- Unmasked : the dread of being able to kill / Urvashi Pawar -- Where are your brains? / Anurag Mishra, Bhaskar Mukherjee and Anup Dhar. |
| 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; and also - 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022047693 |
| ISBN | 9781032140605 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9781032187181 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |