ABSTRACT

In this paper I explore the stages of shock, adjustment and grief involved in trying to offer psychotherapy to children and adolescents in the first wave of the UK Covid 19 pandemic. I discuss the loss of the live experience alongside the absence of my colleagues due to the transition to remote working. I touch on Freud’s paper ‘Mourning and melancholia’ and consider how losing the physical presence of patients and colleagues in time led to what the American psychologist Freudenberger termed‘ burn-out.’ I discuss Freudenberger’s concept and propose that although we did show signs and symptoms of burn-out it never became a chronic condition but was episodic in nature. I suggest that we have been living through a time when we have been confronted by personal and collective anxieties about death and dying. I touch on the idea of ‘resilience’ and my observation that it is founded on interdependence. I also suggest that we can be helped by our training, analysis and supervision and need to use these in conscious ways in order to look out for ourselves at a time when there are very real external fears and anxieties.

摘要

在本文中，我探讨了在英国Covid 19大流行的第一波中试图为儿童和青少年提供心理治疗的过程中所涉及的震惊，适应和悲伤的阶段。我讨论了由于过渡到远程工作而失去同事的生活经验以及同事们缺席的情况。我触及弗洛伊德的论文“哀悼和忧郁症”，并考虑到及时失去患者和同事的体力状态如何导致美国心理学家弗洛伊登贝格所说的“倦怠”。我讨论了科德宝的概念，并提出，尽管我们确实表现出倦怠的迹象和症状，但它从未成为慢性病，而是发作性的在自然界。我建议，我们一直生活在一个面对死亡和垂死的个人和集体焦虑的时代。我谈到“弹性”的概念，并观察到它是建立在相互依赖的基础上的。我还建议，我们可以通过我们的培训，分析和监督获得帮助，并需要有意识地使用这些信息，以便在存在真正的外部恐惧和焦虑的时候寻找自我。