Psycho-Social Approaches to the Covid-19 Pandemic

Athanasia Chalari is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Hellenic Observatory, LSE, UK. Her area of expertise associates with the sociology of the individual and she has previously conducted research on this topic as Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Tokyo and the University of Toronto. She has published numerous studies on the Greek crisis and modern society and has presented her work in international media. Eirini Efsevia Koutantou has recently completed her PhD in Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex, UK. Her area of expertise associates with the psychoanalytic investigation of subjectivity. She has taught psychoanalysis and research methods at the University of Essex and is a Trainee Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist.

1. Introduction.- 2. Lived experiences of Crisis and Social Change.- 3. COVID-19 Pandemic as Collective Trauma.- 4. Methods and Methodology.- 5. What does this pandemic mean?.- 6. Covid-19 Pandemic experienced as collective Trauma.- 7.  A unique example:  Lived Experience of a Patient.- 8. Conclusion.