The Electrified Mind

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.

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

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 The Cell Phone-Internet Lexicon: Overview and Implications
Chapter 2 Minds on Media: Young People and Mental Health in the Internet Age
Chapter 3 The Epidemic of Information: Pros and Cons
Chapter 4 Cyberspace, Transitional Space and Adolescent Development
Chapter 5 Cyberplay: The Pros and Cons of a 'Macrosphere'
Chapter 6 Reality in Cyberspace: Patients' Use of the Internet and Ordinary Everyday Psychosis
Chapter 7 Preoedipal Paradise in the World of the Web
Chapter 8 The Electronic Couch: Some Observations About Skype Treatment
Chapter 9 Separation, Sex, Superego, and Skype
Chapter 10 Multiple Meanings of the 'Electrified Mind': A Concluding Commentary
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