Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Date of Degree

9-2023

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Ph.D.

Program

Psychology

Advisor

Elliot Jurist

Committee Members

Lissa Weinstein

Eric Fertuck

Paul Wachtel

Steve Tuber

Subject Categories

Clinical Psychology

Keywords

Teletherapy, Teleanalysis, Psychoanalysis, Intersubjectivity, Neuropsychoanalysis, the Psychoanalytic Frame

Abstract

This qualitative phenomenological research investigates various therapeutic aspects of the transition from in-person interaction to teletherapy that began in March 2020. A semi-structured interview was conducted with each of the seventeen participants practicing in the New York City metropolitan area between the Fall of 2022 and the Spring of 2023. The questions aimed to explore changes in the psychoanalytic concepts of therapy as experienced by the therapists, including transference, enactment, fantasies, the commute, transitional space, zoom fatigue, and more. Results and discussion offer interesting insights on zoom fatigue, an ever-broadening scope of the therapeutic environment and the comparable changes in the enactments, fantasies, transference and countertransference. Each interview concluded with a discussion on each person’s decision to go back or not to their office as we approach the three-year mark of the pandemic.

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