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The article examines the manifold forms of denial of the threatening reality of COVID-19. It has shaken the social structures of human coexistence. A feeling of deep uncertainty gripped people. Our basic trust in a safe world was injured and the rules of closeness and distance were suspended. The consequences for the therapeutic relationship are described.