Chapter 1. Wrestling with The Inner Demons of Contemporary Life: A Brief Overview of Psychoanalytic Thought -- Chapter 2. Crises: A Major Systems Problem -- Chapter 3. Wicked Messes: The Ultimate Challenge to Reality. Chapter 4. Inquiry Systems: How Do We Know What We Need to Know?- Chapter 5. Inquiry Systems as Coping Mechanisms -- Chapter 6. The Coronavirus, A Jungian Analysis -- Chapter 7. Assumptional Analysis -- Chapter 8. Heuristics and Meta-Heuristics for Coping with Messes -- Chapter 9. Changing the Culture of Policing: A Moral Imperative! -- Chapter 10. The Choice Is Between Mental Health and Mental Illness -- Chapter 11. Enlightened Leadership for Coping with Chaos.

Open Access

This open access book provides a comprehensive look at the pluses and minuses of leadership in times of an unparalleled crisis, such as the COVID-19 global pandemic. It examines the COVID-19 crisis in terms of psychodynamics, crisis management, and especially from the standpoint of complex, messy systems. It analyses how leaders need to think and act differently to cope better with—unfortunately not prevent—future crises.