ABSTRACT
The application of communication technology in clinical psychoanalysis has become an important tool for reaching people living in places that are geographically distant from the analyst's office. Distance analysis is a useful method in both emergency and permanent situations, either due to travel that may occur in either of the members of the analytic dyad, or due to temporary conditions regarding disease, which may affect the patient's ability to move about. However, the analyst has certain diagnostic instruments derived from his/her training in face-to-face interviews that allow him/her to assess the outstanding characteristics of the patient's identity. The analyst is faced with the decision of accepting the use of a framework that permits nicknames or whether he/she refuses it outright. There are situations, permanent or temporary, that make it difficult for some patients to accept the classic framework of attending sessions in the psychoanalyst's office.
