The Electrified Mind Development, Psychopathology, and Treatment in the Era of Cell Phones and the Internet

by Akhtar, Salman; Akhtar, Monisha C.; Blackman, Jerome; Cantor, Joanne; Fisher, Frederick; Fishkin, Lana; Fishkin, Ralph; Frank, John; Gibbs, Patricia L.; Kieffer, Christine C.; Nayar, Kavita I.; Smolen, Ann G.,

• ISBN13: 9780765708045
• ISBN10: 0765708043
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-02-24
• Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.

Summary

The Electrified Mind helps therapists understand and empathize with patients who rely heavily upon cell phones and the internet for the purposes of self-expression as well as for defensive avoidance of actual interpersonal contact. The chapters by distinguished mental health professionals delineate therapeutic strategies for dealing with the dilemmas that arise in working with children, adolescents, and adults excessively involved with cyberspace at the cost of meaningful human relationships.

Author Biography

Salman Akhtar, MD, is professor of psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College and training and supervising analyst at the psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
The Cell Phone-Internet Lexicon: Overview and Implications	p. 1
Minds on Media: Implications for Young People in the Internet Age	p. 21
The Epidemic of Information: Pros and Cons	p. 35
Cyberspace, Transitional Space, and Adolescent Development	p. 43
Cyberplay: The Pros and Cons of a ôMacrosphereö	p. 63
Reality in Cyberspace: Patients' Use of the Internet and Ordinary Everyday Psychosis	p. 89
Preoedipal Paradise in the World of the Web	p. 89
The Electronic Couch: Some Observations about Skype Treatment	p. 99
Separation, Sex, Superego, and Skype	p. 113
The Multiple Meanings of the Electrified Mind	p. 129
References	p. 141
About the Editor and Contributors	p. 153
Index	p. 155
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