Psychosocial Analysis of the Pandemic and Its Aftermath - Bruno Boccara

Psychosocial Analysis of the Pandemic and Its Aftermath

Hoping for a Magical Undoing

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Buch | Softcover
148 Seiten
2022
Hamilton Books (Verlag)
978-0-7618-7356-3 (ISBN)
18,65 inkl. MwSt
This manifesto is motivated by the daunting psychosocial issues that were so strikingly revealed by the Covid-19 pandemic. Of particular interest is the collective denial of facts, which resulted in public health policy mistakes and fostered distrust. In hindsight, this could have been prevented. Boccara shows how the core psychosocial response to the pandemic observed in most countries turned out to be wishing for it to either magically go away, as if it had never happened or be dealt with in an effortless way. Magical thinking and, as a consequence denying reality, often prevailed. As such, the psychosocial dynamics deepened the denial even further as several countries ended-up deciding to “live with the virus”. Yet, deliberately choosing endemicity of the coronavirus may lead to insurmountable challenges. Humanity is, therefore, truly finding itself at a turning point. Boccara argues that successfully facing systemic challenges ahead will require societies to systematically take into account ways in which psychosocial dynamics -particularly those operating at the societal unconscious level- impact public policy and societal level dialogue. By this, we mean understanding how mental representations and fantasies, shared anxieties, and social defenses mobilized against those anxieties impact the society; in other words how nations function as social systems. There has probably never been a more critical time than now for societies worldwide to approach critical decisions from a psychosocial perspective. Failing to do so could lead to psychosocial tipping points whereas the world as whole would increasingly mobilized regressed defenses that would make it impossible for societies to manage such challenges.

There comes a time when ideas potentially capable of profoundly changing the world must be brought to the centers of decision making. That time is now upon us.

Bruno Boccara is the founder of Socio-Analytic Dialogue, a psychosocial framework based upon the idea of social systems as defense against anxiety, which is applied to public policy and country dialogue.

Acknowledgments

Preface

Chapter 1: And Suddenly, The Future Got Cancelled

Chapter 2: Socio-Analytic Dialogue Time of a Pandemic

Chapter 3: From Psychosocial Extinction to Psychosocial Renewal

Chapter 4: Socio-Analytic Dialogue to the Rescue

Chapter 5: If Not Now, When? If Not You, Who?

Postscript: Socio-Analytic Dialogue and the Taliban

Appendix: Main Theoretical Notions Underpinning Socio-Analytic Dialogue

Bibliography

About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 151 x 229 mm
Gewicht 231 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
Medizin / Pharmazie Gesundheitswesen
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-7618-7356-2 / 0761873562
ISBN-13 978-0-7618-7356-3 / 9780761873563
Zustand Neuware
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