Houston Psychoanalytic Society Evening Speaker Series
Sigmund Freud, Teleanalyst: The Coincidental Emergence of Psychoanalysis and Teletherapy
Presented by Hannah Zeavin, PhD, Historian
Thursday, November 4, 2021
7:30PM – 9:00PM CST
Live via Zoom
*Pre-Registration required for Zoom invitation
Registration Fees
Members: Free
Non-Members: $20
CE/CME/CEU (1.5 hrs.) Fees
Active & Student Members: Free
Friend Members: $20
Non-Members: $20
Instructional Level: Beginner
It is well known that Sigmund Freud routinely used media metaphorically in his theories of the psychic apparatus; this chapter recovers the early history of Freud’s real use of media in therapies over distance. This talk reads epistolary and postal conventions in Freud’s moment, intertwined with Freud’s own epistolary self-analysis (in correspondence with Wilhelm Fliess) and the unconventional treatment by correspondence of his only child patient, the agoraphobic “Little Hans,” in order to rethink the coincidental origins of psychoanalysis and teletherapy.
OBJECTIVES
Describe the coincidental origins of teleanalysis and psychoanalysis.
Explain the media conventions of early teletherapy.
Describe the history and import of Freud's own analysis and his "Little Hans" case for teletherapy.
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