Some Post-Pandemic Considerations of the Effect of COVID-19 Restrictions on Remote Treatment of Suicidal Patients

Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is a Faculty Member of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. He is the Chair of the Discussion Group on The Treatment of Suicidal Patients at the annual meetings of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and teaches and supervises residents at Mass General Brigham McLean Hospital. He is a Founding Member of the Boston Suicide Study Group which focuses on the psychoanalytic understanding of self-destructive patients. His extensive writings reflect his interest in suicide and psychoanalysis.

Associate Clinical Professor at Harvard Medical School and a psychologist at Mass General Brigham McLean Hospital, Gunderson Outpatient Programme for treatment of personality disorders. She is a psychoanalyst and a faculty at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. She is also a member of the Boston Suicide Study Group which focuses on understanding and treating suicidality. She is the former President of International Society for Study of Personality Disorders, ISSPD, and over the past 35 years she has, in addition to studies of suicide, also specialised on studies and treatment of pathological narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder and contributed to progress in these fields through conference presentations and over hundred publications.

Specialist in Psychiatry, Neurology, Psychosomatics and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (DGPT), full Professor of “Social Therapy” at University Kassel, Institute for Social Work, Head of National Suicide Prevention Programme for Germany (NaSPro). From 1994 to 2012 he was working in the Center for Therapy and Studies of Suicidal Behaviour, University-Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, providing short term psychodynamic psychotherapy for acute and chronic suicidal patients, from 2007 to 2018 he worked as consultant for geriatric psychosomatics at the Medical-Geriatric Clinic Albertinen-House, Hamburg and provided a consultation liaison service as well as outpatient (visiting) psychodynamic psychotherapy for very old geriatric patients. His scientific interests are suicidality, suicide prevention, psychotherapy in old age.