Loneliness or isolation due to Covid 19 pandemic

Salvatore Settineri

Abstract


More than 18 months have passed since the editorial dedicated to fear of contamination (Settineri & Merlo, 2020a) which, like all public health editorials, has reflected on current events. Reflections on the relationship with that special object that is the disease characterized by its time and its spaces (today minor due to its global characteristics). The disease object is "special" for its complexity value that we can summarize in a multifactoriality that involves both intellectual and emotional processing. This involves risks of dispersion, a concept that is well suited to the word identity both individual and social.


Keywords


Clinical Psychology; Covid-19; Isolation; Loneliness; Pandemic.

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