When COVID-19 Meets Pandemic Hope: Existential Care of, and in, the Impossible

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...

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Published in:The Journal of humanistic psychology 2020-09, Vol.60 (5), p.564-570
Main Author: DuBose, Todd
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Humanistic psychology
Pandemics
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0022-1678
1552-650X
DOI:10.1177/0022167820944645