Psychoanalysis Online 3: The Teleanalytic Setting(The Library of Technology and Mental Health)

Psychoanalysis Online 3: The Teleanalytic Setting is a highly topical, continuing conversation on the role of technology in psychoanalysis and its tremendous potential for outreach to patients in the global economy. It describes the essentials of a framework for teleanalysis that is secure in terms both of technology and ethical stance. The technology is a third in the therapeutic alliance and its impact needs to be analysed like every other element in the field. Teleanalysis appears to some people to be a distancing methodology but the authors report surprising closeness across a distance. Teleanalysis offers a window into the analytic pair's experience of time, space, deprivation, fantasy, and physicality and shows unconscious dynamics displayed graphically on the image on the screen. The book looks at the convenience and impact of internet use among various communities including LGBTQI in terms of defense against and transition to intimacy, and gives clinical evidence of transformation made possible through the therapeutic aspects of technology.

Table of Contents:
Introduction -- Teleanalysis beyond Skype -- Analytic dialogue: its multiple transformations—clinical implementation through telecommunication -- Privacy, telecommunications, and the psychoanalytic setting -- The analyst's closeness in long-distance psychoanalysis -- Light and shadow in online analysis -- The space and place of psychoanalytic treatment: a philosophical meditation -- The effect of the analytic couple's shared physical presence on transference fantasy -- The setting, the screen, and the conveying of unconscious dynamics -- Technology: convenience and therapeutic leverage -- Screen images: transitional and defensive internet use among LGBTQ adolescents and adults -- Couple psychotherapy settings and change in the digital age -- Listening and therapeutic alliance online -- Commentary -- Thinking ethically about terminating therapy after trying new technologies

About the Author :
Jill Savege Scharff, MD, FABP (USA), is Co-founder of the International Psychotherapy Institute; Supervising Analyst at the International Institute for Psychoanalytic Training; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University; and psychoanalyst and psychotherapist with individuals, couples and families in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Jill is an author, editor, and series editor of many books, several co-authored with David E. Scharff.

Review :
'Innovations and adaptations of the psychoanalytic approach invariably arouse anxiety and can fuel prejudices. This excellent collection of papers by analysts who have used mediated psychotherapy and psychoanalysis provides a balanced perspective on the risks and opportunities afforded by teleanalysis. It is an essential companion for psychoanalytic clinicians working today.'- Professor Alessandra Lemma, consultant, Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, visiting professor, University College London and Essex University, and author of The Digital Age on the Couch'Jill Savege Scharff once again shines the spotlight on psychoanalysis in our digital age. She gathers an international array of talented clinicians who explore practical, theoretical and clinical considerations in using new technologies to expand the range of psychoanalytic treatment. Necessary reading for any twenty first century therapist.'- Dan Jacobs, MD, training and supervising analyst, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and chair of APsaA Teleanalysis Group