Towards Excellence

(ISSN No. 0974-035X)
(An indexed refereed & peer-reviewed journal of higher education)
UGC-MALAVIYA MISSION TEACHER TRAINING CENTRE GUJARAT UNIVERSITY

SIGMUND FREUD’S PSYCHOANALYSIS IN REDUCING STRESS AMONG STUDENTS CAUSED DURING COVID-19 LOCKDOWN

Authors:

S. Selvi Chandraghantham, D. Franklin Vaseekaran

Abstract:

The effects of Covid-19 have devastated the lives of many with regard to both physical and mental aspects and have still persisted.  As many lost their lives and many others their loved ones, the psychological after-effects of the virus have left us with a deep scar.  This situation is an entirely strange one for this generation as we have not witnessed one such in our lifetime.  While the elderly and the adult are still struggling to cope up with the situation, the children are in an entirely different state of mind.  They are being protected by the elderly family members, and luckily governments in most of the countries prioritized the children and closed all the educational institutions to ensure their safety.  As the world was trying to protect the children from the virus, the children were silently facing other unimaginable problems.  In real, some students were facing psychological hardships.  These include issues like isolation, being separated from the loved ones, lack of physical activity, and adverse effects from constant use of electronic gadgets.  The period of uncertainty has also caused a huge amount of stress among students, especially students who are at the graduating levels.  The twelfth grade students were not able to choose colleges with their course preference if the college is far away and the students who are at the verge of completing their degree have been rejected by many companies labeling them as the “corona batch students.”  These isolation and rejection act as stressors.  Sigmund Freud, the great neurologist and psychologist of the early twentieth century is the founder of psychoanalysis.  He used the term psychoanalysis to explain the strategies he used to treat his patients.  The main strategy he used in psychoanalysis is the “talk therapy.”  In the modern days, many clinics use the CARD system for children to wean off the fear of vaccination.  The expansion of the abbreviation CARD is “Comfort, Ask, Relax and Divert, and this system has proven to be effective among children to lessen the anxiety or fear for vaccination.  The same system in collaboration with Sigmund Freud’s talk therapy can be used to lessen the anxiety and the stress caused during the lockdown among students.

Keywords:

Talk therapy in students, CARD for anxiety issues, Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis

Vol & Issue:

VOL.16, ISSUE No.3, September 2024