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.
Key Features
- Insightful Analysis: Explores how new technologies interact with an individual’s internal world and alter psychic structure.
- Clinical Guidance: Provides an exploration of the limitations and risks of mediated psychotherapy with clinical examples.
- Accessibility Focus: Discusses opportunities for increasing accessibility to mental health care through new media.
- Integration of Theory and Practice: Combines existing psychoanalytic theory with the challenges presented by digital media.
Additional Information
The Digital Age on the Couch seeks to understand more about how new technologies 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. The impact of mediation via technology and the consequent disintermediation of the body represent central themes throughout, affecting the experience of embodiment, the ‘work of desire’, and the influence of new media on psychoanalytic practice. This book will appeal to psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic psychotherapists, and counsellors.
