Through the Looking Glass: Re-imagining the Analytic Frame on Zoom
Presented by Anne Adelman, PhD
November 1, 2025
12:00- 3:00pm ET
Location: Virtual
Source/ Event Link: Los Angeles Institute & Society for Psychoanalytic Studies
“While working virtually allows the analyst to be present with patients who would otherwise be inaccessible, it also requires a complex shift in the frame of the analytic process and raises many questions. “Technology” in the words of one patient, “is an almost-replacement.”
In this program, Dr Anne Adelman will examine the meanings of the notion of “almost” in the virtual analytic space.
How do we understand the differences and similarities between what takes place within the safe, secure walls of our consulting rooms and the “almost-replacement” that virtual work allows?
What is the impact of the lost in-between spaces—the crossing over the threshold, the openings and closings of the door, the walk down the hall from waiting room to office and back again?
How does virtual work provide us with a new lens to consider the significance of these in-between spaces? How does virtual work create the paradoxical sense of being together, while separate?
This paradox illustrates the human need to be alive amongst other humans, to build resilience, to sustain our momentum, and to survive our isolation. The presentation will be followed by discussion of clinical material provided by a LAISPS candidate.’