Lockdown Therapy: Jungian Perspectives on How the Pandemic Changed Psychoanalysis

✍ Scribed by Stefano Carpani, Monica Luci

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 295
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This fascinating volume explores ― from the perspective both of analysts and their patients―how the COVID-19 pandemic quickly and unexpectedly created profound and lasting changes in the ways psychoanalysis is conducted, and what those changes mean for analysis moving forward.

The first part of the book is made up of interviews conducted by Stefano Carpani with authoritative authors in analytical psychology during the earliest phase of lockdown, centered on themes of the pandemic, lockdown, and how each individual was coping with the challenges those circumstances brought on. The second part features personal essays that further details the subjective experiences of Jungian analysts and therapists worldwide, comprising a collection of reflections on how COVID-19 affected and changed the way analysts work with patients. These reflections focus on the theoretical, clinical, technical, and also practical points of view, including clinical materials on transference and counter-transference considerations. The third part of the book is specular to the second and offers reflections from patients’ perspective on how the pandemic changed their therapies and lockdown affected their experience of therapy. Patients have provided anonymous testimonies through their writing of how they experienced of the change of setting, mindset and related implications.

A comprehensive overview of an important and ongoing conversation, Lockdown Therapy is crucial reading for Jungian analysts and scholars, as well as other clinicians training in analysis, psychotherapy and counselling.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I
1. Spring and Imagination
2. Nature and Death
3. Illness as Metaphor
4. Compensation
5. The Suspension of Time
6. Psychosocial Perspectives and Covid-19
7. The Suspension of Certainties
8. Fraternitè
9. Nightmares
PART 2
1. How I Was Affected by Covid-19 in My Practice
2. Are You There? Dis-connection Entering the Analytical Space
3. One Other Contagion in the Time of Coronavirus
4. Covid-19: Impressions, Sidelights, and Thoughts from the Psychotherapeutic Practice
5. Poetry as a Personalized Lockdown Therapy
6. Presence and Absence of the Body in Psychotherapy During Lockdown
7. What Does the Virus Do to the Analytic Container? Thoughts on the Frame in Times of Pandemic
8. Lockdown Therapy: What the Virus Gives and Takes Away
9. How Are You? The Mystery of Communication between Alone-nesses
10. Psyche and the Speed of Life: Jungian Reflections on the Pandemic
11. To Touch and To Be Touched: On Affection, Infection and Contagion. An Analysis of the Analytic Ethic Reimagined Through Coronavirus
12. Jungian Analysts’ Experiences of Working Online
13. Saying “Goodbye” over Zoom: On Termination During Covid
14. Impact of the Pandemic on my Therapeutic Practice
15. Living in the Shadow of War
16. Home, Sweet Home
17. The Expanded Container: Analysis in a Pandemic
18. Facing Suffering, Compassion and Transformation
19. Online Therapy: The New Normal?
20. Is the Genie Out of the Bottle?: The Impact of the Pandemic on Analytic Process and Analytic Training
21. Accelerations and Decelerations: Individuation at Pandemic Speed
PART 3
1. Me and My Therapist are Bodies in Space: Embodied Sliding on the Ego-Self Axis
2. Coming and Going
3. A Personal Experience of Therapy during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Index