ABSTRACT

This chapter reports on a project teaching students in psychoanalytic psychotherapy who are at a signi®cant geographic remove from each other and from the teachers from whom they wish to learn. I will report on the establishment of a videoconference capacity in four centers, discuss brie¯y some of the technical challenges the equipment and technology pose, the opportunities and challenges to in-depth communication, and some of the dynamics that have emerged in our early experience with the technology. Examples illustrate some dynamics of teaching through this medium to overcome the barriers of geographic separation with large and small group seminars, and in long-term group supervision.