Psicoterapia online: una mirada desde los profesionales de la psicología en el período 2022-2023.

Abstract

The research addresses the issue of online psychotherapy, as one of the Psychology tools to treat people's mental problems. The online modality, in Ecuador, is quite new, since before the COVID-19 Pandemic there was no concrete management of it. As of the health emergency, online psychoanalytic psychotherapy became normal in psychological treatment, where it was found that the notion of the body is absent from the imaginary of the real; the notion of gaze is changing due to the new meaning that is given to it and the notion of voice is the one that sustains the therapeutic processes when there is no gaze and contact. The form of adequacy, the adaptation, the method used, and the attitudes of the psychologists were considered differently from the face-to-face one. The Therapeutic Environment is one of the notions that adapts to the virtual space, and that is developed with the previous ones throughout the work. Throughout the research, the clinical perspective of psychology professionals on online psychoanalytic psychotherapy in Quito, Ecuador is explored. The intention is to know and give a seat to the variables of the phenomenon of change in the modality of attention, in order to facilitate future research that deepens in this context. This research is of a qualitative, exploratory and field nature, in which the semi-structured interview was used as a tool for obtaining information in psychologists who are psychoanalysts or with a psychoanalytic approach, with experience in psychotherapy and who work for the period 2022-2023 with online psychotherapy.