Open AccessCOVID-19, Limit Experiences, and Undergoing the Situation: Therapeutic Implications for Pandemic Times
Author(s) -
Garry T. Cole
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of humanistic psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.408
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1552-650X
pISSN - 0022-1678
DOI - 10.1177/0022167820940461
Subject(s) - pandemic , covid-19 , stressor , limit (mathematics) , psychology , medicine , disease , virology , clinical psychology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , mathematical analysis , mathematics , pathology , outbreak
Living in a world affected by the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic presents unique challenges to the therapeutic endeavor. One such challenge is mutual sharing in the collective anxieties and stressors befalling communities globally. This article will seek to explore and understand these shared concerns through a Jasperian framework of limit experiences, particularly explicating the impact on therapeutic practice. Concepts such as emotional comportment and dwelling will be explored and recontextualized as possible responses to such limit situations.