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-and potentially prevent-future crises.

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.