The Therapist In The Face Of Psychic Pain During The Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

This work has been conceived from the psychotherapeutic activity of psychoanalytic orientation carried out during the pandemic virtually, particularly with patients who, in the midst of the tension of the pandemic and confinement, had to live through major crises, and where the therapeutic process became almost the only thing, or the only thing that could sustain their psychic pain. An analysis of the elements of the framework of psychoanalytic psychotherapy that are modified in virtual work was carried out, and it is concluded that the psychotherapeutic process develops from the bond between patient and therapist, which is why crises could be attended to virtually based on Winnicott's theoretical proposal on the experience of collapse.