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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