Clinical psychologist and health anxiety expert Dr Steven Taylor's latest book, The Psychology of Pandemics, is a groundbreaking treatise on the subject, but it was a book that many thought would struggle to find a market when it was published a few months before Covid-19 arrived.
However, people are certainly reading it now. Dr Taylor, a professor and clinical psychologist at the University of British Columbia, made a number of predictions about the pandemic we are now living through - and almost all of them have been accurate. He and his colleagues have been running research since early 2020 trying to better understand the psychology specific to Covid, and have largely found that not much has changed when it comes to pandemics.
Professor Steven Taylor, author of The Psychology of Pandemics. Photo: All Rights Reserved.
