Psycho-Social Approaches to the Covid-19 Pandemic : Change, Crisis and Trauma

This book explores how meaning-making during the COVID-19 pandemic, and specifically during the period of the April 2020 lockdowns, may be derived from shared lived experience among participants, residing in diverse geographical regions. This study conducted 46 in-depth interviews with Greek participants residing in 13 district countries and 23 cities around the globe and argues that meaning making of the pandemic derives from shared lived experiences of radical change and everyday transformations, fearful as well as well as hopeful perceptions of crisis and trauma emerging through loss of life before the pandemic. Foreword—A strange situation References Acknowledgements Contents List of Tables 1: Prolegomena Aims and Objectives This Study’s Context Rationale Why Change, Crisis and Trauma? Synergies Approaches Bibliography 2: Social Change and Crisis Covid-19 Pandemic as Social Change The Effect of Covid-19 as Social Change Covid-19 Pandemic as Crisis The Effect of Covid-19 as Crisis Coping Strategies Synopsis Bibliography 3: Trauma Introduction Psychoanalytic Approaches on Trauma Consequences of Experienced Trauma Collective Trauma Synopsis Bibliography 4: Methodological and Methodical Processes Methodological Considerations Methods of Data Collection Participants: Who Are They? Analysis Limitations References 5: Experienced Change, Unsettlement and Crisis Experienced Change Unsettlement and Disruption Experienced Crisis Synopsis Bibliography 6: Experienced Trauma Through Loss Experienced Trauma Collective Trauma of Loss Synopsis Bibliography Correction to: Psycho-Social Approaches to the Covid-19 Pandemic Epilogue Bibliography