Abstract
This paper considers some of the paradoxes, challenges and opportunities we face in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic. I consider the ways in which masks serve necessary protective functions, while at the same time serving defensive roles in a different register. The ways in which “remote” work can function as an obstacle to therapeutic intimacy at the same time that it can deepen it, are considered.
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Anthony Bass
Anthony Bass, PhD is on the teaching faculty and clinical consultant at the NYU Postdoctoral Program. He is faculty, and training and supervising analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, and a founder and president of the Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center. He teaches at NIP in the National Training Program. He is editor emeritus of Psychoanalytic Dialogues: the International Journal of Relational Perspectives.