In this 2022 interview with Justine WIllis Toms, Jungian counselor Barbara E. Hort, Ph.D. discusses how the Covid pandemic changed our world and our lives in ways that we hoped would be positive, important, and enduring. Hort speculates that we will probably derive more pandemic insight from scrutinizing the past than from speculating about the future because no one pandemic is entirely separate from any other. Hort also says we will become acquainted with our microscopic ...

What possible good can come from the suffering that has been inflicted on us by the coronavirus pandemic...or any firestorm of disease? It turns out that pandemic suffering can be made bearable, and even transformative, but only when we discover its meaning. Dr. Barbara Hort uses the ancient art of storytelling-woven with history, science, and psychology-to reveal the meaning of our pandemic suffering by placing it in a larger and deeper context. Her fascinating stories and insightful comm...

Throughout human history, the worst abuses of human beings have been perpetrated by people who acted in groups. We have long been aware of this fact, but the atrocities of the Holocaust drove social psychologists to identify the precise factors that lead to the appalling behavior committed by people in groups...behavior they would never commit as individuals. Combining science and storytelling, Feeding Frenzy explores this "Recipe for the Perpetration of Evil" - that is, the specific ingre...