INTERPRETATIONS OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND THE TARGETS OF THE PSYCHOTHERAPY WITH PEOPLE, WHO PREVIOUSLY HAVE SOUGHT PSYCHIATRIC ASSISTANCE.

Abstract

People, who previously have sought psychiatric assistance, are harder reacting to COVID-19 pandemic and they are needing psychotherapeutic help more often, then other people. An analysis of interpretation of the situation is one of the ways to research the human condition and personality traits. Aims of this research involved analysis of interpretations of the situation by people, who previously have sought psychiatric assistance, and identification targets of psychotherapy to them. Materials and methods: the date of an anonymous internet-survey analyzed (659 responses, that included 152 – from people, who previously have sought psychiatric assistance). The survey included the questions about the levels of anxiety, depression, fear and one open question about attitude to COVID-19 pandemic. Results: People, who previously have sought psychiatric assistance, have higher levels of anxiety, depression, and lower levels of the effective coping with the fear, less used interpretation conspiracy theory’s type, higher occurrence theme “about myself”, negative vision of a present and a future, a vocabulary of an anger. They reported about bright sides of pandemic and more reaction of curiosity more often than other people.

Conclusions: The targets of psychotherapy to the people, who previously have sought psychiatric assistance, are ambivalence in the attitudes towards pandemic, concentration themselves feelings, negative vision of the future.