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COVID-19 turned upside down: A psychological perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

V. Gairola
V. Gairola*
Affiliation:
School Of Human Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi, Delhi, India

Abstract

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Introduction

Only little is known about COVID-19 which is now playing its engulfing function in terms of devouring global health, resulting in a crisis that is as novel as the novel Coronavirus strain itself. Both, the structure and function of COVID-19 have been documented and further research is in progress to fill the lacuna. With significant levels of globalization, COVID-19 spreads rapidly around the globe.

Objectives

Masses are hoping for a vaccine as their ultimate object of liberation. People are talking about crashing economy, but what about the crash of humans from their being? Here, a biological, psychological, and psychoanalytic understanding of COVID-19 is investigated. The impact of physical isolation has been documented, but mental isolation remains an uncharted space. The psychological trace—the paleontological psychic trauma of experiencing a pandemic as a witnessing subject is not much talked about. This effort is to open the paths to understanding COVID-19 which may seem pathless at first.

Methods

Primary sources are used along with an intradisciplinary and interdisciplinary unison of psychiatry, psychology, psychoanalysis, yoga, and meditation.

Results

Yoga and meditation for strengthening both physical and psychological immunity along with facilitating the acceptance of psychological impact which is unregistered in the minds of a large population is elucidated.

Conclusions

It is in the interdisciplinary and intradisciplinary unison that preparedness for future pandemics could be curated.

Disclosure

No significant relationships.

Keywords

COVID-19psychiatryPsychologyPsychoanalysis
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European Psychiatry , Volume 64 , Special Issue S1: Abstracts of the 29th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2021 , pp. S677 - S678
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