ABSTRACT
Perhaps the biggest surprise of my analytic career has been the impact on psychoanalytic practice brought on by the introduction of Internet technology. As early as 1995, I was chairing an Internet discussion on psychoanalytic papers with an international group of colleagues. In retrospect, I was remarkably naive. I experienced the use of email to discuss papers as an isolated phenomenon. It hadn’t occurred to me that the medium of Internet discourse would eventually enter into my practice in ways that I would never have predicted. In this contribution I will provide a chronology of my experience over the last seventeen years with email, texting, social media, virtual reality, and the availability of information on the Web. I will describe how it has affected my practice and my thinking. I will also share some of my still-evolving thoughts about the long-range clinical implications of these technological changes.
