1st Edition
Love in the Age of the Internet Attachment in the Digital Era
By Linda Cundy
Copyright 2015
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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This highly topical book explores the new technological environment we have created, and our adaptation to it, twenty-five years after the death of John Bowlby. In the space of just a couple of decades, the world has changed radically, and we are changing too: personal computers and smartphones mediate our lives, work, play, and love. Relationships of all kinds are now conducted through mobile... Read more
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS INTRODUCTION LOOKING BACK AND LOOKING FORWARD by Linda CundyCHAPTER ONE Attachment, self-experience, and communication technology: love in the age of the Internet - Linda CundyCHAPTER TWO A tangled web: Internet pornography, sexual addiction, and the erosion of attachment - John BeveridgeCHAPTER THREE Net gains and losses: digital technology and the couple - Anne Power and Linda CundyCHAPTER FOUR Desire and memory: the impact of Internet pornography on the couple relationship, and processing of early trauma in therapy - Jenny RiddellCHAPTER FIVE Surviving as a psychotherapist in the twenty-first century - Linda CundyCHAPTER SIX The use of telephone and Skype in psychotherapy: reflections of an attachment therapist - Niki ReevesCHAPTER SEVEN Finding words: the use of email in psychotherapy with a disorganised and dissociating client - Tony HanfordCHAPTER EIGHT The ethereal m/other - Linda CundyCHAPTER NINE It takes a village: co-creation of community in the digital age - Lindsay HamiltonINDEX
Biography
Linda Cundy
