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Working Online During the Contemporary COVID-19 Pandemic.
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The Journal of analytical psychology [J Anal Psychol] 2023 Apr; Vol. 68 (2), pp. 281-300. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Mar 03. - Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- Within the psychoanalytic school there has been substantial and ongoing debate about the efficacy of teleanalysis. However, as a result of the current COVID-19 pandemic and the online work with which the Jungian analytic community has now had to engage, this paper initially focuses on analysts' actual experiences of working by teleanalysis. These experiences highlight a range of issues like "Zoom fatigue", "online disinhibition", dissonance, confidentiality, the frame and working with new patients. Alongside these issues, there were ample experiences by analysts of both productive psychotherapy apace with analytic work involving transference and countertransference phenomena, all indicating that a genuine and good enough analytic process can occur with teleanalysis. An overview of the research and literature both prior to the pandemic and as a result of it, confirms the validity of these experiences so long as analysts are cognizant of the specifics of such an online modality. Conclusions to do with the question, "what have we learned?", alongside training, ethics and supervision issues are subsequently discussed.<br /> (© 2023 The Society of Analytical Psychology.)
- Subjects :
- Humans
Pandemics
Countertransference
COVID-19
Psychoanalysis
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1468-5922
- Volume :
- 68
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- The Journal of analytical psychology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 36866701
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5922.12899