Psychoanalysis Online 4

Jill Savege Scharff, MD, FABP (USA) is an adult and child psychoanalyst, co-founder of the International Psychotherapy Institute (IPI) and the International Institute for Psychoanalytic Training (IIPT), and author and editor of books on object relations, individual, couple and family therapy, including The Interpersonal Unconscious and Psychoanalysis Online Volumes 1, 2 and 3 (Karnac).

• Introduction1 Janine Wanlass (USA): Assessing the Scope and Practice of Teleanalysis: Preliminary Research FindingsHorst Kächele (Germany): Commentary2 Betty Benaim (Panama) and Jill Savege Scharff (USA): Teleanalytic Sessions for Sudden Immobility3 Jack Novick (USA) Sadomasochism in Distance TechnologyCarlos Ernesto Barredo (Argentina): CommentaryCaroline M. Sehon (USA): Commentary 4 Horst Kächele (Germany): Establishing a Psychotherapeutic Relationship by EmailSharon Blum (USA): Commentary5 Asbed Aryan (Argentina and Armenia): Psychoanalytic Process in Cyber-Technology6 Liliana Manguel (Argentina): Proximity and Distance in Teletherapy7 Chris Vincent, Mary Barnett, Louisa Killpack, Amita Sehgal, and Penni Swinden (UK). The Impact of Technology on Private Psychotherapy PracticeDavid E. Scharff (USA): Commentary8 Robert Gordon (USA), Xiubing Wang (China) and Jane Tune (China): Comparing Psychodynamic Teaching, Supervision and Psychotherapy over Video-Conferencing Technology with Chinese StudentsJanine Wanlass (USA): Commentary9 Robert Gordon (USA) and Jing Lan (China): The Effect of Distance Training on the Development ofPsychodynamic Psychotherapists.Janine Wanlass (USA): Commentary10 David E. Scharff (USA): Psychoanalytic Teaching by Video Link and Telephone

"This volume continues to sustain and develop a vital dialogue about tele-therapy or tele-analysis. Anyone involved in this challenging development of 'the reach' of psychotherapy will find these chapters in the forefront of responsible considerations about how the mental health professions become on the one hand part of a changing world without compromising the integrity of the psychotherapeutic process." --Christopher Bollas, author of Meaning and Melancholia: Life in the Age of Bewilderment."This volume provides extensive clinical, pedagogical and research documentation of the premise that 'the sense of closeness in the therapeutic encounter does not depend on physical proximity but on integrity and commitment.' For those of us who are curious about how other cultures both confirm and modify our Western psychoanalytic theoretical principles, and who have mastered the new modalities that have improved our teaching, this volume offers hope that others will feel encouraged to stretch themselves in order to ensure the future of psychoanalysis in the wider world." --Ralph Fishkin, Secretary, American Psychoanalytic Association."This is an excellent, broad ranging edited collection of papers from experienced clinicians who generously share their clinical research experience on how technology can facilitate and support a psychoanalytic process, supervision and teaching. It should be essential reading for all clinicians and trainers so as to stimulate thinking about the interface of psychoanalytic practice and technology." --Professor Alessandra Lemma, Psychoanalysis Unit, University College London.