Beschreibung:
This book presents unique insights into the experiences of frontline medical workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, psychoanalytic work with trauma and perspectives from literature.
Part I. Testimonies Part II. Frontline Psychotherapy 1. Witnessing "Events without a Witness" 2. The Role of Coincidences 3. The Limits of Mainstream Psychoanalysis 4. Starting Point: From the Personal to the Social 5. Traumas in Freud's Life 6. Writers, "Our Most Valuable Allies" in Wars and Pandemics 7. A Political Subject 8. Man Is a Ceremonial Animal 9. Madness and Historical Upheavals 10. Frontline Psychoanalysis 11.Salmon's Principles 12. Writers as Valuable Travelling Companions