Global Pandemics and Epistemic Crises in Psychology; A Socio-Philosophical Approach; 1

"Using COVID-19 as a base, this ground-breaking book brings together several renowned scholars to explore the concept of crisis, and how this global event has shaped the discipline of psychology. It engages directly with the challenges that psychology continues to face when theorizing societal issues of gender, race, class, history and culture, while not disregarding 'lived' experiences. This edited volume offers a set of pathways to rethink psychology beyond its current scope and history to become more apt to the conditions, needs, and demands of the 21st century. The book explores topics like resilience, interpersonal relationships, mistrust in the government and access to healthcare. Dividing the book into three distinct sections, the contributors first examine the current crisis within psychology, then go on to explore how psychology theorizes the subject and the other in a social world of perpetual political, economic, cultural, and social crises, and lastly consider the role of crises in the creation of new theorizing. This is essential reading for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of theoretical and philosophical psychology, social psychology, community psychology and developmental psychology"-- Provided by publisher Global Pandemics and Epistemic Crises in Psychology Cover -1 Endorsements 2 Half Title 4 Series Page 5 Title Page 6 Copyright Page 7 Contents 8 Figures 10 Advances in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 12 Reference 13 Contributors 14 1. Psychology in Crisis -- An Introduction 18 References 25 Part I: The Psychology of Crises 30 2. Lessons Learned the Hard Way: Crisis and the Rethinking of Psychological Assumptions About Human Altruism and Agency 32 Social Psychology, World War II, and the Holocaust 33 Lesson #1: Altruism 34 Lesson #2: Agency 38 Conclusion 41 References 42 3. Living with Vulnerability: Contemporary Social Trauma, Resilience, and Indigenous History 44 Pandemics Don't Discriminate, Societies Do 46 Devastation and Resilience of Indigenous Peoples 48 Solidarity and the Social Imagination 51 References 53 4. The Politics of Learning in the Face of a Crisis 54 Emancipation and Critical Theory 55 Disruption and Interconnectedness 56 What Is Learning in the Face of Crisis About? 58 Lessons to Learn? 61 Note 62 References 62 5. The Imaginative Co-Construction of Past and Future in Times of Crisis 63 When Time Accelerates: From Prophecies to Progress 65 Stranded in the Present and Longing for the Past ... or a Future That Never Came 67 Time to Say Goodbye: Anticipating Losses and Necessary Changes 69 Notes 70 References 71 Part II: Crisis and Relationality 74 6. Uncertainty -- Have We Ever Been Certain? What Pfizer, Billy Graham, Trump, and Psychology Have in Common... 76 What Happened? 76 Where Are We Now? 77 'Crisis?' -- Or Are We Better Off Talking About 'Uncertainty?' 78 How Does Advertising/Branding Fit into This? 80 What Do We Have as Data? -- And How Do We Work with Them? 81 Science and Progress AND Religion 82 Equality AND Exceptionality/Greatness 82 Psychology 83 Any Take-away Message? 85 Where Are We Headed? 86 Notes 87 References 88 7. The Psychology of Global Crisis Through the Lens of Liminal Experience: Stuck in the Middle with SARS-CoV-2 89 'Stuck in the Middle' of Permanent Liminality 89 Rethinking the Concepts of 'Crisis' and 'Experience' in the Light of Liminality 91 Crisis 91 Experience 92 Rethinking Emergence and Togetherness: Epidemic as the Epiphany of a Newcomer 94 Eliminating the Liminal 97 Conclusion: Do Not Mess with Mr. In-between? 99 References 100 8. Healing in Times of Crisis: Instrumental Versus Meaningful Relationships 102 A Primer on Relationships 102 Atomism and Holism in Personhood 104 Caregiver Implications 105 Goals 106 Practice 106 Meaningful Relationships 108 Losses 109 Individualism 109 Relationality 111 Suffering 112 Individualism 112 Relationality 113 Conclusion 114 References 115 9. Time, the Other, and the Collective Voice. Discernments from a Language Psychological Perspective with Three Dialoguing Voices 118 Exception 118 Language 119 The Cycle 120 Time, Space, and the Other 121 Interiorized Collective Voices, Therapy and Language -- Meghan Klein Toups 122 Clinical Example and Exploration 124 Implications 125 Moving Materiality -- Antonia Larrain 125 Body, Language, and Subjectivity -- Alejandra Energici 128 Power 130 Note 131 References 131 Part III: Theorizing the Political 134 10. The Coronavirus' Two Bodies 136 Notes 143 References 144 11. Atmos-Fear and Semiotic Devices: How to Turn the Right to Healthcare into a War 145 Fear and Hope 146 The Ecosystemic View of Pandemic 150 The Semiotic Mediation of Fear 153 The War Begins 155 Of Atmos-Fear 159 War Rhetoric 162 Acknowledgments 165 Notes 165 References 166 12. Security as Pacification -- The Trap of Psychologizing Social Phenomena 167 The Factuality of Crisis and Crisis-Talk 168 The Presence of Psychology (and Social Sciences) in Crisis-Talk 169 How Do Social Sciences Join the Stage for the Production of Compliance? 170 Psychologization as the Foundation of the Business of Psychology (and Social Sciences) 172 Against the Psychologization of Psychologization! 173 Solidarity as More Than an Act of Individual 'Ethics' 174 References 176 Index 177 motivational,psychology;,essentialism;,post-humanism;,Ute,Osterkamp;,social,distancing;,quarantine;,Ernst,Kantorowicz;,work,from,home;,disaster,pedagogy;,egoism;,determinism;,lockdown;,plague;,HIV;,cholera;,social,imagination;,caregivers;,personhood;,governance;,economy;,heath,care;,education;,childrearing;,liminality;,Boris,Johnson;,solidarity;,endemic;,officials;,trust; motivational psychology,essentialism,post-humanism,Ute Osterkamp,social distancing,quarantine,Ernst Kantorowicz,work from home,disaster pedagogy,egoism,determinism,lockdown,plague,HIV,cholera,social imagination,caregivers,personhood,governance,economy,heath care,education,childrearing,liminality,Boris Johnson,solidarity,endemic,officials,trust