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Woven man nicht sprechen kann, davon muss man schweigen. … If we are effectively to move to a region “beyond Oedipus,” Wittgenstein's proposition is to be rephrased into Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, davon muss man SCHREIBEN.
While there are plenty of psychological practitioners today who offer e-therapy, online counseling, and cybersessions, virtually all those who refer to themselves as psychoanalysts continue to work with individuals “in the flesh,” either face-to-face or on the couch. In the last few years, psychoanalytic conferences have included panels debating such questions as “Should psychoanalysts use Facebook?” and “Should you Google your patients?” Nevertheless, the general consensus seems to be that psychoanalysis, in the traditional sense, has little to gain from the world of electronic communications. This is hardly surprising when we consider the fact that, according to a 1998 study by Friedman and colleagues (Friedman, Bucci, Christian, Drucker, & Garrison, 1998) the average American psychoanalyst is 65 years old, which in most other professions is the usual age of retirement. According to a more recent study conducted in December 2009 by the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project (Rainie, 2010), only 38 percent of U.S. adults ages 64 and over go online regularly, a significantly lower rate of Internet adoption than in the general population (74 percent) and even the next-oldest group (70 percent of adults ages 50 to 64 years use the Internet on a regular basis). In addition, just 26 percent of U.S. adults ages 65 and older