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In the Analyst at Work section, we hope to see how an analyst works within the privacy of the consulting room. In this present section, we diverge from our usual practice and have asked an analyst, Dr Y, to present a second time in rather short succession. She has very generously opened her clinical work for our examination to the IJP community and to the four discussants. The first AAW section explored the move to remote analysis in the early phase of the Covid 19 pandemic. We now hear the same patient almost two years later. Both analyst and patient have weathered the pandemic, meeting via phone.
In these three sessions we see the analyst and patient return to in-person meetings. Although the issue of phone/remote psychoanalysis is a central issue in training and clinical practice at this juncture in analytic history, we are also in a somewhat different, “forced” situation with the pandemic. Many papers are being written on the subject of both the pandemic and the questions about distant analysis.
Dr Y’s case and the four discussions affords us a chance to study both of these complicated and important issues in our field today. As the editor of this section, I am very grateful to the analyst, to the discussants, and to the editorial readers who have worked on this AAW section on such short notice and with such enthusiasm.