Jungian psychodrama during the Covid-19 pandemic: a review in times of crisis

Many studies have alerted to the after-effects of the coronavirus in lung infected people but, in reality, the pandemic also affects uninfected people. Children, the elderly and many people among psychiatric patients and minors with disabilities, individuals who are helpless and at risk of marginalisation, although without other medical problems, often suffered from symptoms of anxiety and depression during the epidemic, caused not only by the state of fear and the difficulty of making sense of the event, but also by social isolation, lockdown and norms of social distancing. For the first time in history, emergency psychologists implemented support strategies that were entirely at a distance due to the problem of Sars-CoV-2 infectiousness: counselling via social networks and various help-chat services. A comparison with the Chinese experience in Wuhan will lead to the proposal of a therapeutic project in the Italian context, still ravaged by the pandemic, using the Jungian approach to attempt to cure the "symptom" by exploring the myths, archetypes, and symbols of death and life. In fact, after the trauma of hospitalisation or, as it is more often said, after a pandemic trauma, the patient can return to health by finding a good psychophysical condition within the analytical group.