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Abstract
While emphasizing the need for further research in this field, the author offers a contribution about teleanalysis, i.e. psychoanalysis conducted using the Internet. She focuses on issues such as emotional containment and sensory deprivation along with its possible compensation in online psychoanalysis, as well as on the use of combining online and in-person sessions and the reflection of such a double setting on the progressing work. The author suggests that analytic work which is comprised predominantly of online sessions can be fruitfully integrated by in-person sessions in order to strengthen the analytic relationship as well as to overcome impasses, provided the timing is appropriate for the analytic work to progress.
An argument is made to the effect that the combination of online and in-person type of setting may at times encourage splitting because of the possible instinctual defusion and persecutory feelings, which can be brought about precisely because of the online setting.
She provides clinical vignettes from a case to illustrate the theoretical concepts.