Initiating Treatment During the Pandemic: A Roundtable Discussion

The Covid-19 Advisory Team of the American Psychoanalytic Association presents a roundtable discussion about initiating psychoanalytic care during the pandemic. As vaccines appear while infection rates and deaths still soar, we head towards what will eventually be a new normal of post-pandemic life, the "second epidemic” of mental health issues remains. There is a rising need for psychoanalytic care, most of which still takes place online. But how to think about beginning such therapies taking place all online? In this video 9 clinicians grapple with the issues involved, not to present some still illusory “best practices,’ but to think together about these distressing, and unique, times.