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Through a Screen Darkly: Psychoanalytic Reflections During the Pandemic 1st Edition, Kindle Edition
Winner of the 2022 Gradiva® Award for Best Book – Historic Moment for Reflection!
This book offers real-time, intimate reflections on Dr. Friedberg’s patients as they struggle with COVID-19 and its disruptive, dispiriting fallout.
Through a Screen Darkly identifies the psychological distress caused by the pandemic, examining how the particular elements of COVID-19 – its ability to be spread by those who seem not to have it, its intractability, the long-term uncertainty that it engenders – leave even relatively stable people shaken and unsure of the future. The book examines how, amidst radical uncertainty and the prospect of massive social change, such people learn to become resilient. The main theme of the book is that, of necessity, we learn to adapt. Though we still can only see "darkly," we can call on the resources that we have, as well as those we can reasonably acquire, so as to retain a sense of our dignity and purpose. Through a Screen Darkly examines what is possible now as the pandemic runs its course. It makes no predictions of how all this will ultimately play out, but offers a time capsule of how people have coped with a disease that landed suddenly and that we still do not fully understand.
Offering a series of intense encounters with worried, traumatized people, this book will be invaluable to in-training and practicing psychiatrists, as it points to the several possible directions for our national, psychological recovery from the pandemic.
- ISBN-13978-0367764043
- Edition1st
- PublisherRoutledge
- Publication dateMay 5, 2021
- LanguageEnglish
- File size13892 KB
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I have wholehearted admiration for this extraordinary volume by noted psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Ahron Friedberg. It should be of great interest to psychiatric patients and psychiatrists alike. It could also be subtitled "love in the time of the COVID pandemic." The pandemic crisis transformed the close face-to-face therapeutic situation into a remote screen-to-screen encounter. As the pandemic is both danger and opportunity, the dark screen, paradoxically, shines a bright light on both therapeutic participants. Enlightened by his own struggles with the pandemic, Friedberg compellingly renders the existential dramas and unique narratives of his patients and teaches them to cope with the crisis, to maintain hope and resilience, to cultivate new contacts and connections, to discover new meanings in their lives and loves.
Henry Zvi Lothane MD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Through a Screen Darkly is a remarkable achievement. In elegant, precise prose it captures the personal suffering of individuals during the pandemic while rendering the universality of their condition. Each essay is a version of how any of us could experience these new complexities that will, one way or another, determine all our futures. Dr. Friedberg's practice has been at the epicenter of the pandemic for several months, and he saw it all -- guilt, grief, fear, feistiness, and self-reinvention. He helped people find their way towards some kind of accommodation with post-COVID reality. His account of this straitened reality is, therefore, tempered with possibility and hope. As we make our way through these dark times, this inspiring book will become an essential read.
David Forrest, MD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University
Through a Screen Darkly is a beautifully-written exploration of the human psyche as it struggles with the uncertainty, anxiety, and fear prompted by the pandemic. It is timely and fascinating. Dr. Friedberg's patients navigate from the initial shock of lockdown, to venturing out into a "new normal," and ultimately to resilience. A Screen portrays the latest incarnation of an ancient human challenge: to psychologically adapt to change and, even better, to learn how to thrive within it.
Heather Berlin, Ph.D., M.P.H., Neuroscientist and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai
As a literature professor and poet, I am engaged with many issues in this book from perspectives very different from the author’s -- for example, writing poems about Covid-19. So, I’m indebted to this impressive collection for its valuable new insights, notably its readings of literature. And Through a Screen Darkly illuminates our personal experiences of the pandemic -- we’ve seen the movie, now read the book.
Heather Dubrow, Ph.D., John D. Boyd SJ Chair in Poetic Imagination, Fordham University
'I have wholehearted admiration for this extraordinary volume by noted psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Ahron Friedberg. It should be of great interest to psychiatric patients and psychiatrists alike. It could also be subtitled "love in the time of the COVID pandemic." The pandemic crisis transformed the close face-to-face therapeutic situation into a remote screen-to-screen encounter. As the pandemic is both danger and opportunity, the dark screen, paradoxically, shines a bright light on both therapeutic participants. Enlightened by his own struggles with the pandemic, Friedberg compellingly renders the existential dramas and unique narratives of his patients and teaches them to cope with the crisis, to maintain hope and resilience, to cultivate new contacts and connections, to discover new meanings in their lives and loves.'
Henry Zvi Lothane, MD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
'Through a Screen Darkly is a remarkable achievement. In elegant, precise prose it captures the personal suffering of individuals during the pandemic while rendering the universality of their condition. Each essay is a version of how any of us could experience these new complexities that will, one way or another, determine all our futures. Dr. Friedberg's practice has been at the epicenter of the pandemic for several months, and he saw it all – guilt, grief, fear, feistiness, and self-reinvention. He helped people find their way towards some kind of accommodation with post-COVID reality. His account of this straitened reality is, therefore, tempered with possibility and hope. As we make our way through these dark times, this inspiring book will become an essential read.'
David Forrest, MD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University
'Through a Screen Darkly is a beautifully-written exploration of the human psyche as it struggles with the uncertainty, anxiety, and fear prompted by the pandemic. It is timely and fascinating. Dr. Friedberg's patients navigate from the initial shock of lockdown, to venturing out into a 'new normal,' and ultimately to resilience. A Screen portrays the latest incarnation of an ancient human challenge: to psychologically adapt to change and, even better, to learn how to thrive within it.'
Heather Berlin, Ph.D., M.P.H., Neuroscientist and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai
'As a literature professor and poet, I am engaged with many issues in this book from perspectives very different from the author’s – for example, writing poems about Covid-19. So, I’m indebted to this impressive collection for its valuable new insights, notably its readings of literature. And Through a Screen Darkly illuminates our personal experiences of the pandemic – we’ve seen the movie, now read the book.'
Heather Dubrow, Ph.D., John D. Boyd SJ Chair in Poetic Imagination, Fordham University
About the Author
Dr. Friedberg, M.D., is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine, and served twice as past president of the American Society of Psychoanalytic Physicians. He is editor of American Academy of Psychodynamic Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis Forum and book editor of Psychodynamic Psychiatry, and a regular contributor to Psychology Today.
Sandra Sherman, J.D., Ph.D., was a Senior Attorney in the U.S. government and a professor of English at two major universities. She is the author of four books and over 60 peer-reviewed articles on 18th century literature and culture. She currently works with scientists and physicians to support their research and writing.
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- ASIN : B08PC1Y7T1
- Publisher : Routledge; 1st edition (May 5, 2021)
- Publication date : May 5, 2021
- Language : English
- File size : 13892 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Up to 4 simultaneous devices, per publisher limits
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 198 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : 0367764040
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The book might have been better titled “resilience.” Dr. Friedberg’s effort is to maintain his patients’ ability to cope with life during the pandemic that dramatically interfered with his patients’ lives and their purported goals. This is a book worth reading to understand the process of psychiatric telemedicine.
He is careful to point out that this is but one view from many, which will contribute to some future historical view, but it has an implicit coherence, denied to many other assessments, derived from 25 years of psychiatric practice. And, as if to emphasize this, there is an early delightful section of self musing about the role and possibilities of psychiatric treatment in the face of so many disasters. How can he give calm sensible advice to someone whose life is crashing spectacularly into pieces?
Dr. Friedberg's literary prowess enables him to keep the complexity of the discussion under firm control, and I felt that I was sitting in his attic alongside him, struggling to empathize, theorize and make some sense of it all. The result is a very readable account, which also stimulates consideration of profound issues. It makes a real contribution to the inevitable outpouring of books that we can expect in the near future.