COVID-19, Limit Experiences, and Undergoing the Situation: Therapeutic Implications for Pandemic Times. (March 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Cole, Garry
• Other Names: Morrill Zenobia guest-editor.; Hoffman Louis guest-editor.; Yang Mark guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Journal of humanistic psychology. Volume 61:Number 2(2021)
• Page Start: 190
• Page End: 197
• Publication Date: 2021-03
• Subjects: COVID-19 -- pandemic -- limit situation -- emotional dwelling; Humanistic psychology -- Periodicals; 150.192
• DOI: 10.1177/0022167820940461
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0022-1678

Abstract

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.