Challenges of Psychoanalysis in the 21st Century - Psychoanalysis, Health, and Psychosexuality in the Era of Virtual Reality (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001)

During discussion of psychoanalysis and virtual reality in the new millennium, it was predicted that in the next century the differences between the conscious, unconscious, and the pre-conscious will have to be reconsidered in view of the ever-expanding concepts created by virtual reality. There will be virtual sexual acts over the Internet, ovum parthenogenesis will be possible without the intervention of the male, and clonic reproduction of the human being will be carried out in the laboratory. The child born in these circumstances will relate to a widening array of potential parental figures: the classic heterosexual couple, the single-parent family, the homosexual couple, the transsexual figure, etc. All this will of course alter the classic Oedipal constellation and without doubt the gender identity of the child. There will be attempts to undergo psychoanalysis via the Internet in the same way that other kinds of psychotherapy are being virtualized. But this will force us to redefine transference. On the other hand, it seems likely that psychoanalysis as a psychotherapeutic tool will, in the 21st century, relate more to somatic, medical patients or to the `worried well' than to psychiatric patients. These brief considerations on the scope of our deliberations in some way explain the diversity of this book, but also justify its interest.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2012
First published:	2001
Editors:	Jose Guimon • Sara Zac de Filc
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	190
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001
ISBN-13:	978-1-4613-5514-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Sexual behaviour Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Psychiatry Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > General
LSN:	1-4613-5514-1
Barcode:	9781461355144

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