1st Edition
Screen Relations The Limits of Computer-Mediated Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
By Gillian Isaacs Russell
Copyright 2015
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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Increased worldwide mobility and easy access to technology means that the use of technological mediation for treatment is being adopted rapidly and uncritically by psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists. Despite claims of functional equivalence between mediated and co-present treatments, there is scant research evidence to advance these assertions. Can an effective therapeutic process... Read more
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR SERIES EDITOR'S PREFACE FOREWORD by Todd Essig INTRODUCTION PART I ON THE FRONTIERS CHAPTER ONE The western frontier CHAPTER TWO Exploring the speculative non-fiction digital frontier CHAPTER THREE Mapping the digital frontier PART II IN THE CONSULTING ROOM AND THE RESEARCH LABORATORY CHAPTER FOUR What happens in the consulting room CHAPTER FIVE From the first laboratory: neuroscience connections CHAPTER SIX From the second laboratory: technologically mediated communicationPART III ON THE SCREEN CHAPTER SEVEN The mediating device CHAPTER EIGHT The problem of presence PART IV MAKING A PLACE FOR SCREEN RELATIONS CHAPTER NINE Sometimes it works . . . CHAPTER TEN The elephant in the room CHAPTER ELEVEN The toothpaste and the tube CHAPTER TWELVE To be in the presence of someone REFERENCES INDEX
Biography
Gillian Isaacs Russell, PhD, is a member of the British Psychoanalytic Council and has been in private practice since 1988. She has been on the Editorial Board and Book Review Editor of the British Journal of Psychotherapy. Dr Russell consults, supervises, lectures and teaches internationally. She was the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the American Psychoanalytic Association for services during the COVID-19 pandemic.
