Psychosocial Analysis of the Pandemic and Its Aftermath - Couverture souple

Boccara, Bruno

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0761873562 ISBN 13 : 9780761873563

Editeur : Hamilton Books, 2022

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Bruno Boccara is the founder of Socio-Analytic Dialogue. He has a Ph.D. in Economics and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has worked at the World Bank, UBS, and Standard & Poor's. He completed his psychoanalytic studies at the NYU School of Medicine Psychoanalytic Institute in New York.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hamilton Books
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0761873562
• ISBN 13: 9780761873563
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 148
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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