Analysis and Psychotherapy by Telephone

Twenty Years of Clinical Experience

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8335140
AutoresMark Leffert (Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute, autor correspondente)
Ano2003
Volume51
Fascículo1
Páginas101-130
Data de publicação2003-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0003-0651 • E-ISSN: 1941-2460
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00030651030510011301
PMID12731800
OpenAlexW1974631611
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas16
Referências citadas6

Psychoanalysis via telephone is becoming increasingly prevalent while remaining an area of comparatively little study. The author's early telephone treatment of a series of patients living some distance away or engaged in business travel, and his subsequent telephone treatment of nine analytic and five psychotherapy patients following his own geographic move, are discussed in detail. The mechanics of beginning and carrying out such treatment are examined. The theoretical implications of the shift to the telephone and the ambivalence with which it is often met by clinicians are also explored. The role of nonverbal communication in both in-person and telephone analysis is considered, as is the concept of the analytic office as a literal space and a psychological container. Suggestions for future research are advanced

Ambivalence · Developmental psychology · Intermediary · Milieu therapy · Nonverbal communication · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Space (punctuation) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Computer Science · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy