There are some softwares like ICQ which show every typing mistakes, backspacing, deletions, and pauses, as you say, John.
We can get a closer approach to the patient, and we can work in real time. Anyway, this is not the most extended way to work in cyberpsychoanalysis. Patients, or consultants very often prefer the e-mail sessions. Maybe this preference will change with development of people´s skills in chat, but up to this time only very young people ask us this kind of interview.
In my experience, the best way to begin is the e-mail (even with people who ask the chat). With e-mail we avoid misunderstandings about time or day. Once we have had 2 or 3 interviews by e-mail, we have the opportunity to introduce the chat and maybe the patient agrees to use it.
Of course, those misunderstandings are valuable to work with, in a regular relationship analist-patient, but in this kind of consultations, consultants not always are comitted to the analysis.
I would like to read your opinions and experience on this.
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