The only way: virtual experience becomes emotional reality

IF 0.4 Q4 PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL JOURNAL OF CHILD PSYCHOTHERAPY Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI:10.1080/0075417x.2022.2043413
Stella Acquarone
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ABSTRACT The pandemic has seen tele-therapy become ‘the only way’ for all of us, but the author has been using it since 2004 in her parent infant work. While she acknowledges and enumerates some of the frustrations inherent in tele-therapy, associated with its deviation from the classical psychoanalytic method, she also poses several questions: does it broaden the scope of psychoanalysis? Is it consistent with Freud’s ‘hope’ that ‘the increasing experience’ of psychoanalysts will include adaptations on behalf of patients, for instance those who cannot attend sessions in person? [Freud, S. (1912). Recommendations to physicians practising psycho-analysis, section (f). SE, XII, p. 120]. Also, are there aspects of tele-therapy that actually aid rather than hinder the aims, for example, the lessening of inhibition in virtual space? In the discussion, the author focuses on the screen as the defining aspect of tele-therapy. The screen becomes an intermediary point in the therapist–client interaction and relationship, which facilitates new aspects of mental functioning. These new aspects can include assimilating facial expressions (Darwin, 1872), the construction of a virtual space that activates internal objects, the speed needed to handle face-to-face psychoanalytic dialogue, and the surprise felt when internal obstacles or trauma are repositioned, lessened or neutralised in tele-therapy sessions where clients don’t expect their repressed unconscious conflicts to be noticed. In conclusion, the author puts forward a notion that tele-therapy can foster a ‘virtual space that becomes real’, in other words, a virtual experience that can become an emotionally-felt reality.
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唯一的方法是:虚拟体验变成情感现实
摘要疫情已经使远程治疗成为我们所有人的“唯一途径”,但作者自2004年以来一直在母婴工作中使用远程治疗。虽然她承认并列举了远程治疗中固有的一些挫折,这些挫折与传统精神分析方法的偏离有关,但她也提出了几个问题:它是否扩大了精神分析的范围?这是否符合弗洛伊德的“希望”,即精神分析学家的“日益增长的经验”将包括代表患者的适应,例如那些不能亲自参加会议的患者?[弗洛伊德,S.(1912)。对从事心理分析的医生的建议,第(f)节。SE,XII,第120页]。此外,远程治疗的某些方面是否真的有助于而不是阻碍目标,例如,减少虚拟空间中的抑制?在讨论中,作者将屏幕作为远程治疗的定义方面。屏幕成为治疗师与客户互动和关系的中间点,促进了心理功能的新方面。这些新的方面可以包括同化面部表情(Darwin,1872),构建一个激活内部物体的虚拟空间,处理面对面的精神分析对话所需的速度,以及当内部障碍或创伤被重新定位时所感受到的惊喜,在远程治疗过程中,客户不希望他们压抑的无意识冲突被注意到。最后,作者提出了一个概念,即远程治疗可以培养一个“变得真实的虚拟空间”,换句话说,一种可以成为情感现实的虚拟体验。
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JOURNAL OF CHILD PSYCHOTHERAPY
JOURNAL OF CHILD PSYCHOTHERAPY PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL-
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Child Psychotherapy is the official journal of the Association of Child Psychotherapists, first published in 1963. It is an essential publication for all those with an interest in the theory and practice of psychoanalytic psychotherapy and work with infants, children, adolescents and their parents where there are emotional and psychological problems. The journal also deals with the applications of such theory and practice in other settings or fields The Journal is concerned with a wide spectrum of emotional and behavioural disorders. These range from the more severe conditions of autism, anorexia, depression and the traumas of emotional, physical and sexual abuse to problems such as bed wetting and soiling, eating difficulties and sleep disturbance.
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