ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses a project to establish a videoconference capacity to link infant observation students from two centres with a teacher at a third site. It describes some of the technical challenges posed by the equipment and technology. The chapter outlines some of the dynamics of teaching infant observation by video-link, with brief examples drawn from one of the first of the series of seminars. It reviews the opportunities and challenges to in-depth communication, and also describes some of the dynamics that have emerged in our early experience with the technology. Videoconference technology has improved rapidly, and the costs have come down, it is now feasible to join colleagues, students, and teachers at various sites, including video-linked home-computer sites, across any distance in real time. This creates the possibility of widespread teaching of infant observation as well as other opportunities for learning psychoanalytic ideas and clinical practice.
