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Advances in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology
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1. Psychology in Crisis -- An Introduction
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Part I: The Psychology of Crises
2. Lessons Learned the Hard Way: Crisis and the Rethinking of Psychological Assumptions About Human Altruism and Agency
Social Psychology, World War II, and the Holocaust
Lesson #1: Altruism
Lesson #2: Agency
Conclusion
References
3. Living with Vulnerability: Contemporary Social Trauma, Resilience, and Indigenous History
Pandemics Don't Discriminate, Societies Do
Devastation and Resilience of Indigenous Peoples
Solidarity and the Social Imagination
References
4. The Politics of Learning in the Face of a Crisis
Emancipation and Critical Theory
Disruption and Interconnectedness
What Is Learning in the Face of Crisis About?
Lessons to Learn?
Note
References
5. The Imaginative Co-Construction of Past and Future in Times of Crisis
When Time Accelerates: From Prophecies to Progress
Stranded in the Present and Longing for the Past ... or a Future That Never Came
Time to Say Goodbye: Anticipating Losses and Necessary Changes
Notes
References
Part II: Crisis and Relationality
6. Uncertainty -- Have We Ever Been Certain? What Pfizer, Billy Graham, Trump, and Psychology Have in Common...
What Happened?
Where Are We Now?
'Crisis?' -- Or Are We Better Off Talking About 'Uncertainty?'
How Does Advertising/Branding Fit into This?
What Do We Have as Data? -- And How Do We Work with Them?
Science and Progress AND Religion
Equality AND Exceptionality/Greatness
Psychology
Any Take-away Message?
Where Are We Headed?
Notes
References
7. The Psychology of Global Crisis Through the Lens of Liminal Experience: Stuck in the Middle with SARS-CoV-2
'Stuck in the Middle' of Permanent Liminality
Rethinking the Concepts of 'Crisis' and 'Experience' in the Light of Liminality
Crisis
Experience
Rethinking Emergence and Togetherness: Epidemic as the Epiphany of a Newcomer
Eliminating the Liminal
Conclusion: Do Not Mess with Mr. In-between?
References
8. Healing in Times of Crisis: Instrumental Versus Meaningful Relationships
A Primer on Relationships
Atomism and Holism in Personhood
Caregiver Implications
Goals
Practice
Meaningful Relationships
Losses
Individualism
Relationality
Suffering
Individualism
Relationality
Conclusion
References
9. Time, the Other, and the Collective Voice. Discernments from a Language Psychological Perspective with Three Dialoguing Voices
Exception
Language
The Cycle
Time, Space, and the Other
Interiorized Collective Voices, Therapy and Language -- Meghan Klein Toups
Clinical Example and Exploration
Implications
Moving Materiality -- Antonia Larrain
Body, Language, and Subjectivity -- Alejandra Energici
Power
Note
References
Part III: Theorizing the Political
10. The Coronavirus' Two Bodies
Notes
References
11. Atmos-Fear and Semiotic Devices: How to Turn the Right to Healthcare into a War
Fear and Hope
The Ecosystemic View of Pandemic
The Semiotic Mediation of Fear
The War Begins
Of Atmos-Fear
War Rhetoric
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
12. Security as Pacification -- The Trap of Psychologizing Social Phenomena
The Factuality of Crisis and Crisis-Talk
The Presence of Psychology (and Social Sciences) in Crisis-Talk
How Do Social Sciences Join the Stage for the Production of Compliance?
Psychologization as the Foundation of the Business of Psychology (and Social Sciences)
Against the Psychologization of Psychologization!
Solidarity as More Than an Act of Individual 'Ethics'
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Index