In socially challenging circumstances, a person's personality pathologies that have roots in the distant past are typically intensified, and the covert collective mentality of society as a whole emerges. The COVID-19 epidemic, which has caused a severe level of crisis throughout the world, gives us a chance to more clearly see social pathologies in addition to personal diseases, which aids in our understanding of the meanings of the pathologies. The COVID-19 outbreak's effects on Japanese people's views and behaviors as a whole were discussed in this study. For discussing various behavioral phenomena, such as addiction behaviors and crude criticism and/or discrimination towards a certain type of people, psychoanalytic, social psychology, and self-determination theories were utilized. I then offered some hypotheses about these attitudes and actions before mentioning the tasks that COVID-19 presents to human society. I'm referring to the rising demand for clinical psychology and psychiatry to help society complete its tasks

Circumstances, pathologies, mentioning, clinical