November 1, 2025 via Zoom
Free for members and candidates
3 CEs offered:
Members — $60
Senior Candidates — $30
Current Candidates — Free
Through the Looking Glass: Re-imagining the Analytic Frame on Zoom
Presented by Anne Adelman, PhD
While working virtually allows the analyst to be present with patients who would otherwise be inaccessible, it also requires a complex shift in the frame of the analytic process and raises many questions. “Technology” in the words of one patient, “is an almost-replacement.”
In this program, Dr Anne Adelman will examine the meanings of the notion of “almost” in the virtual analytic space.
How do we understand the differences and similarities between what takes place within the safe, secure walls of our consulting rooms and the “almost-replacement” that virtual work allows?
What is the impact of the lost in-between spaces—the crossing over the threshold, the openings and closings of the door, the walk down the hall from waiting room to office and back again?
How does virtual work provide us with a new lens to consider the significance of these in-between spaces? How does virtual work create the paradoxical sense of being together, while separate?
This paradox illustrates the human need to be alive amongst other humans, to build resilience, to sustain our momentum, and to survive our isolation. The presentation will be followed by discussion of clinical material provided by a LAISPS candidate.
About the Presenter
Dr Adelman is a clinical psychologist and a Supervising and Training Analyst at the Washington-Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis. She currently serves as the institute’s Dean of Students and was the recipient of their award for excellence in teaching in 2019. As the Co-Editor of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Review of Books, she launched a feature column titled “Why I Write,” inviting analysts to reflect on the experience of writing. She is also co-chair of the New Directions in Writing Program and is co-author and editor of four books, along with several published papers and chapters.
Course Objectives
Upon completion of this activity participants should be able to:
Describe 3 benefits of virtual psychoanalysis (i.e. increased access, minimized disruption, and access to previously inaccessible information).
Describe 3 limitations of virtual psychoanalysis (i.e. technological limitations, lack of physical presence, and social isolation).
Analyze clinical material with attention to virtual-specific enactments, boundary ruptures, or losses of in between space, and consider technical approaches to such enactments grounded in psychoanalytic theory.
Presenter
Anne Adelman, PhD, Supervising and Training Analyst at the Washington-Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis
With case material provided by: Elisa Ambrosia, PsyD LAISPS Senior Candidate
Moderator: Jill Model Barth, PhD, Supervising and Training Analyst at LAISPS and the New Center for Psychoanalysis
Target Audience
This program is free for all members and candidates. Optional CE credit (3 credits) is offered at a fee of $60 for members, $30 for senior candidates, and no fee for current candidates.
Important Disclosure: All planners, faculty, staff, and others involved in this activity have reported no relevant financial relationships with companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. This activity has not received any commercial support.
Accreditation Statements: Psychologists: LAISPS is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. LAISPS maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Board of Behavioral Sciences: The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts courses approved by the APA for Continuing Education for LCSW, LMFT, LPCC and LEP licenses.
Psychiatrists: CME credit will not be offered for this program.
Clinicians with any other licenses should check with their Licensing Boards to ensure that APA-sponsored programs are accepted for CE credit.
To Earn Credit: Participants must complete an online evaluation within 2 weeks of completing this CE activity in order to receive credit.
Attention Psychologists: Psychologists can earn a maximum of 3 CE credits for this program. Partial credit may not be awarded, based on APA guidelines.