From offline to online: setting and relationship in therapies
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https://doi.org/10.23823/jps.v4i1.65Abstract
This paper tries to analyze the problem of temporarily transferring psychotherapy sessions from an offline to an online setting. The issue of online psychotherapy, made urgent by the current Covid19 situation, has been vivaciously discussed by the psychotherapeutic community for decades. There are aspects of pragmatics, syntactic and semantic importance to be considered with regards to the basic principles of the psychotherapeutic process. The author emphasizes the factors that seem to more favorably lead patients to accept such a change. At the same time, other factors will be analyzed such as the setting-related issues, above all constancy, the epistemological, clinical and metaphoric aspects, and those related to the psychotherapeutic relationship, first of all familiarity, lack of physical contact, use of screens, virtual proximity. The paper is intended as a contribution which will favour a complex and fruitful discussion on the subject.
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