Froyd used letters to do therapy and other kinds of a media. He didn't really keep a diary, he kept some very basic notes to help him remember things. But he wrote it all down in his letters. His first analytic encounter was not in a consulting room. It was over ten years, or eight years, vie, letter writing. This has been termed freud's a self analysis but i revise that and say we can consider this actually foyd's analysis.
Hannah Zeavin, lecturer in the department of History and member of the executive committees of both the Center for New Media and the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society at University of California, Berkeley, talks about her book, The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy, with Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel. The book tracks the history of teletherapy, which Zeavin defines as therapeutic interaction over distance, and its metamorphosis from a model of cure to one of contingent help. The book starts with letters sent through the mail and ends in our current coronavirus catastrophe. Zeavin and Vinsel also talk about the complexities and potential harms of going back fully in-person, including how it will negatively affect disabled people.
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