This book is an effort to understand what we experienced psychologically during the pandemic that we are going through in the world as of December 2019. The consequences of this event remain, although with less intensity. The apparent custom in the face of the situation does not eliminate the emotional impact that this health crisis has caused the human species. Surely it will take a long time for us to realize what this pandemic caused in us as humanity and in our own uniqueness. COVID-19 came to change our reality. Psychotherapists and psychoanalysts are aware that what happens in the external world will always have consequences in the internal world, in the mind. This is the main topic addressed by The pandemic on the couch, an essential reading text. Humans inhabit a cultural world; The word differentiates us from the animals and we speak not only to inform practical issues, but to convey feelings, share, elaborate, heal, flatter, offend, lie, misrepresent, repeat. Saying over and over again what even has no remedy. This is what happened in the pandemic. They constantly reminded themselves of the old normality that said with bitterness, would no longer return; it was assured that a new normality would come. In reality, the repetition was an attempt to grieve for what had been lost. In endless dialogues you could also hear something else: Idealization of the past. A hypothetical observer, who had not known this world before the pandemic, would have thought that the earth was a paradise. We know that this marvelous painting is false, but what has been lost tends to be idealized and what is new, in general, is awaited with anguished expectation. This is also why we resist change. It never ceases to amaze how this invisible virus has turned the entire world upside down. Yes, life has changed, but even so, it will always be worth living.