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The Digital Age on the Couch - Psychoanalytic Practice and New Media (Hardcover)
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The Digital Age on the Couch - Psychoanalytic Practice and New Media (Hardcover)
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The Digital Age is on the couch. Working today, it is essential
that clinicians understand the world we live in. The transition
from an industrial economy to an information economy impacts not
just the external structure of society and commerce, but also the
internal psychic economies of our brains and, inevitably, how
clinicians conceptualise the analytic setting in which they
practice as therapists and analysts. The Digital Age on the Couch
seeks to understand more about how new technologies interact with
the prerogatives of an individual's internal world, how they may
alter psychic structure itself in fundamental ways and the
implications this may have for the individual's functioning and for
the operation of society. This book attempts, from the perspective
of a working clinician, to make some sense of this. The impact of
mediation via technology and the consequent disintermediation of
the body represent central themes throughout, as they impact on the
experience of embodiment, on the 'work of desire' and on the way
new media influences psychoanalytic practice. New media offer
opportunities for increasing accessibility to mental health care,
including psychoanalytic interventions. However, this requires a
sophisticated understanding of how to best create and safeguard the
analytic setting. Alessandra Lemma here guides the clinician
through an exploration of the limitations and risks of mediated
psychotherapy, illustrated with clinical examples throughout. The
Digital Age on the Couch offers an accessibly written guide to
combining existing psychoanalytic theory and practice with the
challenges presented by digital media. It will appeal to
psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic psychotherapists and counsellors.
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