ABSTRACT
This chapter concerns the place of occasional remote analytic sessions in an ongoing, four times weekly, in-person analysis. It presents a single session from the mid-phase of the analysis of a male architect, who had to travel occasionally to meet with his clients on the West coast. The chapter then presents Herbert’s next session, in which he reported two dreams, both of which addressed the transference directly. These successive sessions presented the curious question of why a patient might be able to work more effectively at a distance of 2500 miles, on the telephone, in a strange hotel than in author's familiar office, a few feet away from his on the couch. Herbert was an only child in a large extended immigrant Jewish family in which many siblings of his parents lived in the same apartment building in Chicago. His current project is to design an office building for an IT company in Seattle.
