Increased world-wide mobility and easy access to technology means that computer-mediated communication is being adopted rapidly and uncritically by psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists. Despite claims of equivalence between mediated and shared environment treatments, there has been no research on the efficacy of technologically-mediated treatments.

Can an effective therapeutic process occur without physical co-presence? What happens to screen-bound treatment when, as a patient said, there is no potential to -kiss or kick?- Our most intimate relationships, including...