{"id":4145,"date":"2016-04-06T20:17:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T20:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iarpp.net\/?post_type=article&p=4145"},"modified":"2016-04-12T21:07:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T21:07:19","slug":"screen-relations-the-limits-of-computer-mediated-psychoanalysis-and-psychotherapy","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/iarpp.net\/thesite\/article\/screen-relations-the-limits-of-computer-mediated-psychoanalysis-and-psychotherapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Screen Relations: The Limits of Computer-Mediated Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Gillian Isaacs Russell <\/strong>(USA)<\/p>\n

\"russellcover0216www\"Increased worldwide mobility and easy access to technology means that the use of technological mediation for treatment is being adopted rapidly and uncritically by psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists. Despite claims of functional equivalence between mediated and co-present treatments, there is scant research evidence to advance these assertions.<\/p>\n

Can an effective therapeutic process occur without physical co-presence? What happens to screen-bound treatment when, as a patient said, there is no potential to \u201ckiss or kick?\u201d Our most intimate relationships, including that of analyst and patient, rely on a significant implicit non-verbal component carrying equal or possibly more weight than the explicit verbal component. How is this finely-nuanced interchange affected by technologically-mediated communication?<\/p>\n

This book draws on the fields of neuroscience, communication studies, infant observation, cognitive science, and human\/computer interaction to explore these questions. It finds common ground where these disparate disciplines intersect with psychoanalysis in their definitions of a sense of presence, upon which the sense of self and the experience of the other depends. This new data reveals surprising and non-intuitive elements, providing a rich knowledge base for better understanding how people experience screen-based treatments.<\/p>\n

Embedded throughout the book are the movingly clear voices of clinicians and patients themselves, describing their experiences using technology for treatment. Gillian Isaacs Russell, whose own clinical experience using technological mediation inspired her exploration of therapy on the digital frontier, pays particular attention to the specific gains and losses of mediated communication of which clinicians should be aware before undertaking technologically-mediated psychoanalysis or psychotherapy.<\/p>\n

Reviews:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThis book is not anti-technology; it is pro-psychoanalysis. Gillian Isaacs Russell comes up with a deeply humanistic, forward-looking book that does not deny the power of technology but insists that we use it to more thoroughly understand our human purposes. As an analyst or therapist, before you use Skype or FaceTime, read this. You\u2019ll better understand the new human terrain on which you work.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 Sherry Turkle, Director, MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and author of\u00a0Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a pioneering work that gives a balanced, nuanced, and comprehensive picture of how the screen affects therapeutic dialogues, and makes a strong advocacy for the necessity of the co-presence of two persons in the consulting room. It is a must-read for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists who find technologically-mediated treatment necessary in their work with patients.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 Sverre Varvin, MD, PhD, past President of the Norwegian Psychoanalytic Society; Chair of International Psychoanalytical Association China Committee; Professor at Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences<\/p>\n

\u201cGillian Isaacs Russell explores vast territory, including patients\u2019 and therapists\u2019 experiences, clinical theory, and intriguing research in cognitive neuroscience, information communication theory, and virtual reality. Her skillful explication and incisive analysis of how the technological medium affects our patients, ourselves, and the analytic process makes it readily apparent that simulated treatments have limits and consequences, and knowing this enables clinicians to make smart choices about whether and when to conduct such treatment. This very well-written book is essential for anyone who wants to think carefully about computer-mediated treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 Don Greif, PhD, Co-Editor-in-Chief,\u00a0Contemporary Psychoanalysis<\/em>; Faculty, William Alanson White Institute, New York<\/p>\n

\u201cThis well-written book is a must for analysts and therapists conducting therapy online or planning to do so. It contains many valuable insights into aspects of ‘the communicating cure,’ which many of us tend to overlook in practice, including: aspects of embodied intersubjectivity such as shared physical space, shared temporality, moving to and from the consulting room, and, above all, ‘being in the presence of someone’ as essential for becoming oneself.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 Jon Sletvold, PsyD, Faculty, Training and Supervising Analyst, Norwegian Character Analytic Institute; author of\u00a0The Embodied Analyst: From Freud and Reich to Relationality<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2028\u00a0 \u201cGillian Isaacs Russell raises searching questions that need considering by anyone concerned with the future of psychoanalytic therapy, and especially by those involved in the training of therapists. In its thoroughness and range, her book is a remarkable achievement. It needed to be written, and it needs to be read.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013 Michael Parsons, British Psychoanalytical Society; French Psychoanalytical Association<\/p>\n

Link to publisher<\/strong>:\u00a0http:\/\/www.karnacbooks.com\/product\/screen-relations-the-limits-of-computer-mediated-psychoanalysis-and-psychotherapy\/35350\/<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n

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\"russellphoto0216www\"Gillian Isaacs Russell, PhD, NCPsyA
\n<\/strong>Member, British Psychoanalytic Council
\nMember, British Psychotherapy Foundation
\n100 Arapahoe Avenue, Suite 12
\nBoulder, CO, 80302\u00a0 USA
\nWebsite: http:\/\/www.drisaacsrussell.com
\n<\/a>Email Gillian Isaacs<\/a><\/p>\n

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