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Therapeutic relationship and virtual setting during the COVID 19 emergency

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

S. Cerino*
Affiliation:
Sphere, ECOS - EU, Massa Martana, Italy

Abstract

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Introduction

During the COVID 19 epidemic, the isolation helped virtual psychoterapy sessions, not to break up therapeutic relationship in critical moments.

Objectives

This paper points out the traditional setting modification and how the interpersonal relationship can affect the therapeutic dynamics.

Methods

The experience could support the possibility to design adequate plans to test possible relational potentiality/prospect to respond to the pandemic emergency. The computer screen represents a very important new and rich element as “Skype” seems to have been the most used remote support. The screen plays a filter and separation function but physically represents the related presence in a shared timeframe. It is also a “mutual mirror”, reflecting the exclusive duality and resending to “different” space and time where the therapeutic relationship acts.

Results

In this way the “analysis room” loses its physical feature to move towards a new dimension where the subjective experience are communicated/lived/re-elaborated by the mean of shared visual, modifyng the codified space of a traditional setting.

Conclusions

The screen is not only a mere vehicle of verbal communication, but fully gets in “hic et nunc” in space relationship assuming however an allegoric value, that, in the individual subjective, could go really beyond its “simple” and usual technological function.

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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the European Psychiatric Association
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