3: Pandemic Psychodynamics UK with Steven D'Souza

This episode Pandemic Psychodynamics UK opens up a wide-ranging
and deeply engaging conversation with award winning author Steven
D' Souza.  

We reflect on how people react to the anxiety produced when we
get to a place of not-knowing.   We explore how Covid-19
amplifies previous social-political trends such as the rise in
authoritarianism and conformism.  Also how the critical and
creative thinking that is so urgently needed can be unconsciously
repressed in pandemic time.   People can be silenced if they
question the dominant discourse such as 'we follow the science'
or the workplace equivalent this is 'evidenced-based', people
often act as if these are neutral and apolitical,  yet power
always plays out in how science, knowledge and data are
used.  We end by focusing on social cohesion, and how
pandemic time also increases community, how people are deeply
touched.. when touching is physically prohibited. 
  

Steven D'Souza is author/co-author of four books. Most recently
Not Knowing, with Diana Renner, which won the UK Management Book
of the Year, and Not Doing. He has been an Associate Fellow at
Said Business School, the University of Oxford, and currently
heads Executive Development for a global organisation. 
Enjoy!