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Getting Lost: Reflections on Psychopolitical Isolation and Withdrawal

Editor : Matthew H. Bowker, Editor : Amy Buzby

Reviews and Endorsements

'A timely, deeply thoughtful collection of psychoanalytically framed accounts of the meaning of the Covid-19 pandemic, and of democracy’s inability to effectively manage it for so many citizens. These well-organized analytic reflections are worth reading over and over again. Thanks to the editors Matthew Bowker and Amy Buzby for exhibiting the under-appreciated explanatory compatibility of psychoanalytic theory and democratic theory for coping with catastrophic events.'
Michael A. Diamond, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Public Affairs and Organization Studies, University of Missouri, Columbia

'Matthew Bowker and Amy Buzby assemble a cast of sharp analysts to sift illuminatingly through the wreckage wrought as much by responses to Covid-19 as by the malady itself ... Getting Lost is a valuable kickstart to post-mortems on the political consequences of the psychological dimension of the crisis.'
Kurt Jacobsen, University of Chicago and co-editor of Free Associations

'The paradoxical nature of the Covid pandemic – creating longing for connection while thwarting it, unleashing the communal terror of an illness that had to be borne alone if we were all to survive – ripples through and shapes the world we live in now. This intriguing book seeks to make sense of its interpsychic, relational, and societal impacts. At a time of “world wrenching stress in public life” when our “individual and shared capacity for holding is collapsing,” these writers offer us a necessary form of containment, an opportunity to grieve for the elusive return to normal, and a reimagining of the challenges of public and private life in the context of that grief.'
Barbara Wren, Consultant Psychologist, Director of Barbara Wren Psychology, and author of True Tales of Organisational Life

'For counsellors, psychotherapists and teachers seeing the post-COVID malaise reflected in the behaviour of clients and students, the book is a compelling if unsettling read. Getting Lost provides a valuable framework for counsellors and psychotherapists seeking to understand the lingering impact of the pandemic on our capacity to relate to one another, offering an illuminating but rather pathological account of personal and collective withdrawal in a post-COVID, post-truth world.'
Therapy Today, John Marsden MBACP (Accred), March 2026, Volume 37, Issue 2