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NHS Value
"We will defeat this coronavirus and defeat it together. We will win because our NHS is the beating heart of this country. It is the best of this country. It is unconquerable. It is powered by love.”
– Boris...
April 17, 2020, 2:38 pm
Science & Psychology of the Coronavirus Crisis
There is rightly criticism of the pseudoscience of the behaviourism the government promotes in tandem with the expertise of epidemiologists and virologists. But there is one psychological principle that helps explain the misery that the crisis...
April 17, 2020, 2:38 pm
Covid19 Outbreak – Psychological Issues around Social Isolation
Many nations are undergoing some form of “lock-down”, so some anxiety is normal. Borwin Bandelow, from Gottingen in Germany, who has conducted a study on fear, said humans developed into social creatures to survive, so isolation was...
April 17, 2020, 2:38 pm
There is rightly criticism of the pseudoscience of the behaviourism the government promotes in tandem with the expertise of epidemiologists and virologists. But there is one psychological principle that helps explain the misery that the crisis has engendered. Attachment theory and research shows that, when faced with a threat, we are biologically programmed to seek proximity to our loved ones – the very thing this crisis stops us doing. The result: anxiety, depression, grief and, initially, denial.
A first step is to acknowledge the loss not just of lives but of our ways of life, which for the young includes travel, education, fun, friendship. Only then will hope follow – creative solutions and a much-needed socio-political reset. Sadness and mourning should not be short-circuited.
Dr. Jeremy Holmes – The Guardian, 28.3.20