Love in the time of Corona.
Australas Psychiatry
; 28(5): 521-523, 2020 10.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-690191
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
As the world struggles to come to terms with "corona," we find our collective experience to be entirely alien, struggling to find meaning in the forms of feeling being evoked. When words cannot provide meaning to experience, metaphor is often utilized.CONCLUSIONS:
Words like "love" are informed autobiographically as "growing words," with no rules defining their use. The significance of "love" to an individual is created through personal history, such that sophisticated understanding is only constructed following a lifetime of experience. "Corona" is perhaps a growing word; we cannot yet grasp its meaning in the face of cólera (passion) and pati (suffering) informing our collective traumatic script. Psychiatrists should aim to focus on the positive forms of feeling emerging during the pandemic, in order to be better equipped to meet the impending "second wave" of mental health complications.Keywords
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pneumonia, Viral
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Coronavirus Infections
/
Emotions
Type of study:
Prognostic study
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Australas Psychiatry
Journal subject:
Psychiatry
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
1039856220936142
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