Love in the age of the internet : attachment in the digital era / by Linda Cundy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cundy, Linda, author.

Contributor:

Cundy, Linda, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Love--Computer network resources.

Love.

Sex--Computer network resources.

Sex.

Internet--Social aspects.

Internet.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, [2018].

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 phones, email, Skype and social network sites. Attachment theory is concerned with the impact of the external world on internal reality, where twenty-first century experiences encounter the powerful, primitive, and ancient instinct for attachment and survival. This book is written by psychotherapists whose practice, with individual adults and couples, is informed by attachment theory. It contains theoretical, observational, and clinical material, and will be relevant to all psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, counsellors, and psychologists interested in the profound impact of digital and communication technologies on human relationships.

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION Looking back and looking forward; CHAPTER ONE Attachment, self-experience, and communication technology: love in the age of the Internet; CHAPTER TWO A tangled web: Internet pornography, sexual addiction, and the erosion of attachment; CHAPTER THREE Net gains and losses: digital technology and the couple; CHAPTER FOUR Desire and memory: the impact of Internet pornography on the couple relationship, and processing of early trauma in therapy; CHAPTER FIVE Surviving as a psychotherapist in the twenty-first century

CHAPTER SIX The use of telephone and Skype in psychotherapy: reflections of an attachment therapist CHAPTER SEVEN Finding words: the use of email in psychotherapy with a disorganised and dissociating client; CHAPTER EIGHT The ethereal m/other; CHAPTER NINE It takes a village: co-creation of community in the digital age; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 16, 2014).

ISBN:

0-429-91593-4

0-429-90170-4

0-367-10281-1

0-429-47693-0

1-78241-331-6

9780429476938

OCLC:

896800071