When COVID-19 Meets Pandemic Hope: Existential Care of, and in, the Impossible. (September 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: DuBose, Todd
• Other Names: Yang Mark guest-editor.; Hoffman Louis guest-editor.; Morrill Zenobia guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Journal of humanistic psychology. Volume 60:Number 5(2020)
• Page Start: 564
• Page End: 570
• Publication Date: 2020-09
• Subjects: existential therapy -- pandemic -- hope; Humanistic psychology -- Periodicals; 150.192
• DOI: 10.1177/0022167820944645
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0022-1678

Abstract

This article is an adaptation of a talk given to the International Institute for Existential-Humanistic Psychology in Beijing, China, March 14, 2020. I describe the existential concerns embedded in the biological discourse related to COVID-19, and offer the proposal that hope is as pandemic as COVID-19, if not more so, and invite us to think of the category, "pandemic, " in existential terms. Shortly after this talk was given, I found out that I tested positive with COVID-19, thus adding a lived existentiality to what was written.