Author Description

""Life After Death: Psychoanalytic Elaborations of the Pandemic" is a collection of profound reflections on the psychological consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, organized by the Psychoanalysis, Subjectivation, and Contemporary Culture Working Group of the National Association for Research and Graduate Studies in Psychology. This book offers a detailed analysis of social isolation and the impact of an authoritarian government during a public health crisis.The thirteen chapters of this work are an invitation to process traumatic experiences, following Freud's teachings on the need to remember and process to avoid repeating trauma. Written in accessible language, this book is essential reading for mental health professionals and all those interested in understanding the depths of psychoanalysis applied to times of crisis." -- Back cover (translated)