ABSTRACT
This chapter reports on beginning, maintaining, and developing a distance learning project for teaching mature students in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, and later candidates in psychoanalytic training. In many ways, the dynamics of this Salt Lake seminar, divided by 5000, miles closely resembled the dynamics of any group containing subgroups, of any such seminar teaching psychoanalytic concepts and method. The difference is that the use of the videoconference technology and the existence of two subgroups amplify certain aspects both of the group’s dynamics and of the case or situation being examined. Students can communicate the intricacies of analytic process, carry on discussion that is rich in affect as well as intellectual understanding, and can profit from a teacher who would otherwise be unavailable to them. The weekly seminars on conference call offer continuity of training, coupled with regular individual and group supervision, which is often also given via video connection or telephone.
