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Covid-19 On The Couch - Sigmund Freud's Surprising Analysis

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In classical psychoanalysis, as pioneered by Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939), the patient reclines on a couch, while the therapist sits behind them, and so cannot be seen directly by the client.

Freud advocated that the clinical encounter is not supposed to be ‘face-to-face’. Was this an early attempt at 'Social Distancing'?

Sigmund Freud did, after all, live through the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 - 1920. In fact, meeting in a consulting room, but then deploying a furniture arrangement which on purpose ‘hides’ the psychoanalyst from the patient, according to Freud, generates powerful psychological processes.

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