Pandemic is an attachment trauma, there will be grief and loss in abundance.  Grief and loss is regulated through our attachment networks.  Pandemic is terrible in grief and loss.  It is tragedy of sadness for everyone, rippling everywhere. The home-front in World War II knew grief and loss, husbands, fathers, sons.  A soldier standing on…

I heard Governor Cuomo today refer to the medical workers, the doctors and nurses and respiratory therapists, as doing God's work, and noting the season. There are archetypal undercurrents. The threat is a bug, not even alive, a virus, a replicating entity on the edges of life, an alien threat to us all, its target…

James Hillman makes a strong argument for the archetypal organization of our day-to-day experience.  Our entire psychological and emotional experience occurs within a brain, and as a result acquires the underlying structure of the brain's organization into the very fabric of our experience. We live in a brain, and our psychological and emotional experience occurs…

Quarantine of New York or any city or geographic region is EXACTLY the wrong response to trauma - Do NOT impose powerlessness and no-escape psychology on the people being traumatized. Imposing powerlessness and no-escape psychology on the people will INTENSIFY the trauma experience. We want to increase feelings of power and agency, and we Never-Ever-Ever…

Trauma is defined as an experience that overwhelms the brain’s capacity to remain in an organized state.  There are two types of trauma, death-trauma and complex trauma.  Death related trauma is 911, combat exposure, and rape.  It is exposure to a threat of death and violence so immediate and powerful that it overwhelms the capacity…

The psychology of pandemic divides us socially into four strata within two groups; Group 1: Individual – Parent Group 2: Young - Old Parents Parents face additional burdens, stresses, and anxieties beyond the disease and its economic financial impact, which is also elevated in importance.  They must actively arrange for and solve child supervision on…

The complex trauma of pandemic is an attachment pathology. The attachment system is the brain system that regulates anxiety, fear, sadness, and loss - including the loss of a way of life. As a primary motivational and regulatory system of the brain, the attachment system is an anxiety-based system – it was formed by the…

The psychology of pandemic is emerging as an important current field in professional psychology. The entire field of professional psychology and psychotherapy only developed less than 100 years ago, and the Covid-19 pandemic is the first major pandemic that has occurred within the scope of professional psychology’s existence. The global scope of the pandemic and…