Psycho-Social Approaches to the Covid-19 Pandemic: Change, Crisis and Trauma

This book explores how meaning-making during the COVID-19 pandemic, and specifically during the period of the April 2020 lockdowns, may be derived from shared lived experience among participants, residing in diverse geographical regions. This study conducted 46 in-depth interviews with Greek participants residing in 13 district countries and 23 cities around the globe and argues that meaning making of the pandemic derives from shared lived experiences of radical change and everyday transformations, fearful as well as well as hopeful perceptions of crisis and trauma emerging through loss of life before the pandemic.

Athanasia Chalari is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Hellenic Observatory, LSE, UK. Her area of expertise associates with the sociology of the individual and she has previously conducted research on this topic as Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Tokyo and the University of Toronto. She has published numerous studies on the Greek crisis and modern society and has presented her work in international media.

Eirini Efsevia Koutantou has recently completed her PhD in Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex, UK. Her area of expertise associates with the psychoanalytic investigation of subjectivity. She has taught psychoanalysis and research methods at the University of Essex and is a Trainee Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist.