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I had hoped to be in Sicily last month, talking with Italian colleagues about psychotherapy for patients diagnosed with personality disorders. Instead, I find myself quarantined in my home in the United States, �meeting� with my own patients via telephone and internet. Although it is possible to continue being therapeutic under these circumstances, it is also demanding. Electronic connection has some positives � for example, patients have shown me their living spaces, babies, dogs, and other parts of their lives that I have only heard about previously � but it is also oddly tiring to stare at a screen most of the day. My colleagues are reporting the same exhaustion I feel in response to the special demands of teletherapy.

And under these circumstances psychotherapy itself feels different. Whatever their original reason for seeking treatment, the main topic my patients talk about is the coronavirus. Every session begins with inquiries about my health and reports of their physical status and the condition of people they care about. Whereas previously, I might have responded to questions about my own health with inquiries about the patient�s curiosity, I now feel it is a matter of elemental courtesy to tell the patient how I am. Without a sense of safety that I remain okay, they cannot move on to other topics. The coronavirus has made my work feel more conversational, more intimate, more revealing of the realistic interdependencies between me and my patients.

The hardest thing for me to deal with psychologically has been the fact that dread of the coronavirus is not neurotic anxiety, and grief about its damage is not neurotic depression. I can help patients when realistic fear and loss are complicated by their personal triggers and vulnerabilities, but I cannot reduce emotional pain that is grounded in reality. Instead, I bear witness to realistic fear and overwhelming grief. Especially for those who have felt that others cannot stand to hear what they are feeling, this provides some consolation. I try also to give my patients the best information I have about keeping themselves safe. For realistic fears, realistic self-protective measures are the best �treatment.�

Clinical experience has taught me that that one of the deepest fantasies of all human beings is the belief that somewhere there is an omnipotent, omniscient Other who can fix things. The first time I became aware of the power of this fantasy was when my two-year-old daughter had a full-scale tantrum because I would not make it stop raining. Some patients have a life-long emotional template of trying to get an imagined powerful mother to see how much they are suffering, because presumably then, she will intervene and save them. They bring that template to psychotherapy and spend session after session elaborating their pain, resisting a therapist�s efforts to help them see that their wish for an ideal parent must be relinquished and grieved so that they can enjoy the imperfect people and incomplete satisfactions of reality. In therapists, the counterpart of this fantasy, which has often propelled us into our profession, involves being an omnipotent rescuer who can bring perfect mental health to every patient. Over our careers, if we do not temper this fantasy, we will be destructively self-critical, frustrated, and unable to take pride in the help we realistically offer.

It is fundamentally terrifying that the world is not in the hands of benevolent, superior others, but is run by flawed, fragile human beings like us. In any ambitious psychotherapy, patient and clinician confront this reality both cognitively and emotionally. In a pandemic, this process moves to center stage as both parties are tempted to seek solace in fantasies of depending on a perfect parent. Psychotherapy involves facing hard truths. Like therapists on a grand scale, leaders who perceive and tell the truth inspire better responses to disasters than those who resist reality, try to maintain fantasies of themselves as omnipotent, and reassure the public with lies.

All that we can do as therapists, I think, no matter how our respective countries are dealing with COVID-19, is to be honest about how emotionally difficult things are right now. The main comfort we can offer to patients, even in a time of quarantine, is an intimate connection with someone who refrains from defensive distortions of a frightening, painful reality. This service does not come close to matching our fantasies of being omnipotent saviors, but it is still a precious thing.

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