Online and offline setting: clinical reflections
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https://doi.org/10.23823/x7vaad52Keywords:
online therapy; offline therapy; setting; technological progress; therapeutic relationship.Abstract
With the advent of Covid-19 pandemic, the scientific literature has been enriched with contributions highlighting the excellent resources of the online setting, around which there has been a strenuous reorganization by patients and therapists in the pandemic period. However, it is necessary to ask how functional the frequent shift from offline to online and vice versa is for both the clinician and the patient. In the effort to make a comparison, it seems unrealistic to consider the two modalities as perfectly interchangeable, since they are characterized by different advantages and disadvantages that in turn have repercussions on the mental set-up of the therapeutic couple.
Starting with a specific clinical exemplification, this contribution aims to highlight points of contact and divergence between online and offline configurations and intends to open a reflection on the risk of a transfer from one setting to the other during a psychotherapeutic process.
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