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This article describes a psychoanalytic treatment that was conducted, in large part, by telephone. In this case, the dilemma of how to make contact with a schizoid patient without intruding intensifies when treatment shifts to the phone. The patient's dissociated feelings of dependence are enacted in the transference-countertransference dynamic. A holding environment is re-established, enabling dissociated experience to be integrated. The telephone's simultaneous separateness and connection provide a transitional space in which to work on ambivalence about dependency. The patient moves from communicating through dissociative projections, enactments and physical contact toward verbal symbolic communication. |
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