ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors consider and illustrate teleanalysis as an adaptation to sudden immobility. In this case, teleanalysis was not the preferred modality. It was a second choice because of inability to get to the analyst’s office, beneath which lay unconscious reasons driving the necessity for sessions on the telephone. The consultation was about Elena’s loss of memory following a car accident when she was driving and lost control of the car. She could not remember her friends at the university or her professors, and only slightly remembered her father and mother but not very clearly. During the work in analysis, Elena associated the nausea with the closeness of her father, and recovered an infantile memory when he was in bed with her, very close, touching her. While her analysis proceeds in ongoing phone sessions, Elena has come a long way in a short time towards acceptance of the reality of her external objects.
