After Lockdown, Opening Up

1. Introduction: For a Psychosocial approach to the lockdown (Darren Ellis and Angie Voela).- 2. Sharing space - not sharing space: narcissism and object relations in the pandemic (Stephen Briggs).- 3. Death, loss and limbo in times of pandemic (Elizabeth McMullan and Rebecca Reynolds).- 4. The world is slowing down: reflection on time during lockdown and pregnancy (Marija Lobanova).- 5. Conceptualising the lockdown form the point of view of chronic illness (Sharon Gallagher and Angie Voela).- 6. Locked-in, log-in and slog-on: a technocratic dystopia? (Darren Ellis).- 7. "It's genetic, innit?" Racializing the lockdown (Lurraine Jones and Marcia Wilson).- 8. Addressing the safety and criminal exploitation of vulnerable young people- before, during and after COVID-19 and lockdown (Andrew Ravenscroft et al.).- 9. Being trapped in relational systems of narcissistic abuse during lockdown (Elizabeth McMullan).- 10. Leaving home: safer beyond the neoliberal family (Debra Benita Shaw).- 11. 'Hands, face, space': Psychoanalysis, secular rituals and magical thinking in COVID-19 times (Marita Vyrgioti).- 12. Separation, connection and the anticipation of uncertain (digital) futures: care, lockdown and mental health (Ian Tucker).- 13. The new logics of viral media (Tony Sampson & Jussi Parikka).- 14. Lockdown and conspiracy theories: inaction, transmission, stupidity (Angie Voela).- 15. Afterword (Corinne Squire). 

Darren Ellis is Senior Lecturer and Course Leader of Psychosocial Community Work at the University of East London, UK.

Angie Voela is a Reader in Social Sciences at the University of East London, UK.