Spatially Distant but Emotionally Close: A Personal Reflection on Psychoanalytic Distance Training.

Psychoanalytic training in countries with no accredited training program or official link to the international psychoanalytic community is possible only through technology. Serious controversies surround the legitimacy of distance training, based primarily on doubts about the efficacy of distance analysis. Curiously, in a discipline that prides itself on being a "talking cure," an emphasis on the embodied presence of the analytic couple emerges in the literature over and over again.

The efficacy of metacognitive therapy on patients suffering from pure obsession.

Objective: The present study aimed to examine the efficacy of metacognitive therapy in treatment of patients with pure obsession.

Method: Six patients suffering from pure obsession were selected using purposeful sampling method and were included after meeting the inclusion criteria of the study. Patients were assessed using the structured clinical interview for DSM- IV Axis I disorder - patient edition (SCID- I/P).