Body construction in the time of Covid: a PCP research

The Covid-19 pandemic has confronted us with a new way of building the world. Words like lockdown, quarantine, social distancing, gatherings have begun permeating our language, outlining a sometimes incomprehensible, other times frightening reality. The body, in particular, has become a place of validation of the most threatening predictions or, better, anticipations (Kelly, 1991) about us and our future, and sometimes our perceptive field has exhausted itself in the concern for our physical symptoms. With a view to overcoming the mind-body dichotomy, with this research we asked ourselves whether, in recent years and, in particular, following the lockdown, the construction people have of their bodies has changed/is changing. To do this we used, within the framework of Personal Construct Psychology, a semi-structured interview, which we then analyzed using textual analysis techniques.