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An article in the September 18 issue, "APA Provides Guidance on Telepsychiatry Consultations," contains the statement: "However, little information is available on the impact of telepsychiatry on interactional and dynamic issues such as transference and countertransference, according to the resource document."
As a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who has been doing intensive work via the telephone for more than 30 years, I provide much information about transference and countertransference, such as in the article "Psychoanalysis by Telephone," published in the November 1988 Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic. A second paper, "A Case Report of the Treatment of a Brutally Traumatized Man: A Psychoanalysis-By-Telephone," is in press in Psychoanalytic Inquiry and goes into great detail about the transference and countertransference. Fellow psychiatrists contemplating long-distance therapy might find it valuable to read the above papers.
John A. Lindon, M.D.
Los Angeles, Calif.