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Psychotherapy 2.0: ramping up psychotherapy for the digital age
Psychotherapy is widely seen as being a bit backward. Psychoanalysis (one of many forms of psychotherapy) is often seen as the most backward of the lot; anachronistic, old fashioned, unscientific: a...
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Twitter and your ego: re-tweets, mentions, and Klout scores
What really motivates people to tweet? What do you get out of it? There are a series of conscious reasons why you might tweet. Perhaps it’s a handy way to communicate with your network of friends; the...
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Twitter and the Social Unconscious: how tweets and blogs go far beyond the...
The distinction between what is conscious and what is unconscious is a familiar one – Freud gave us the image of an iceberg where the small exposed bit represents the conscious mind and the much larger...
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Sticking your nose in it: the consequences of breaking up in the world of...
“Breaking up is hard to do” or so the classic Neil Sedaka song tells us. It’s true. Coming out of a relationship is a loss. It challenges our attachment patterns, makes us reassess our lives, crushes...
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Young People, Social Networking, and Mental Health: time for a national...
Young people go online first. They go to Google to research their school work; express themselves (and compare themselves) on Facebook and use it to chat with their friends; use Twitter to sound off,...
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The Digital Economy of Recognition: the psychology of the socially networked...
“If you’re not paying for it, you become the product.” This is a longtime adage often applied to the current state of the digital world where so much appears to be free, but this is only because the...
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The Internet and the Modern Self: do some online environments enable trolling?
On Monday the 21st of October I had the honour of participating in a panel discussion on the Internet and the Modern Self. The discussion was the official launch of the opening of submissions for The...
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Facebook dead and buried? Not.
So, all the reports are in. Young people are leaving Facebook in droves. Facebook, they say, is dead and buried. Well, to quote Mark Twain, “The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” Let...
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What is ‘aperture’? The narrowing of relational complexity on social networks
While writing a book is truly gratifying, it can be rather frustrating when you come to refine some ideas contained in it shortly after the book is published (hence, they’re not in the book!). My ideas...
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The Digital Economy of Recognition: on the extensions of the self into the...
Presentation given at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies 20th Anniversary Conference, University of Essex. As a former student and member of staff at the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies (CPS), I...
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The Strongest Online Persuader You’ll Ever Encounter: Yourself
It’s time we were honest with ourselves about online persuasion, don’t you think? As every day passes, the online environment becomes more and more a part of our daily lives. With this being the case,...
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Online Harassment – it’s not just media hype
If you’ve been reading the news lately, you might feel that by going online you’ll be subjecting yourself to all sorts of danger. Is the phenomenon of Internet trolling and cyber-bullying all media...
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The Psychodynamics of Social Networking [Video]
My aim in writing the book The Psychodynamics of Social Networking was to take the incredible ideas and theories produced by the world of contemporary psychotherapy and apply them to the compelling...
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Googleheads, Buzzfeed Boffins, and Mobile Mad: information, technology, and us
There are just a few weeks left in 2014, so perhaps it’s a good time to pause and think about ourselves and where we are, in relation to the rapidly developing technologies that surround us. Despite...
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The Tinderisation of Everyday Life: when too much choice backfires
Share This: Choice may be the result of the abundance produced by consumer capitalism, but that doesn’t make it a good thing. In fact, there’s quite a wide selection of research that goes to show that...
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The Digital Economy of Recognition: the psychology of the socially networked...
Share This:“If you’re not paying for it, you become the product.” This is a longtime adage often applied to the current state of the digital world where so much appears to be free, but this is only...
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The Internet and the Modern Self: do some online environments enable trolling?
Share This:On Monday the 21st of October I had the honour of participating in a panel discussion on the Internet and the Modern Self. The discussion was the official launch of the opening of...
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What is ‘aperture’? The narrowing of relational complexity on social networks
Share This:While writing a book is truly gratifying, it can be rather frustrating when you come to refine some ideas contained in it shortly after the book is published (hence, they’re not in the...
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Facebook dead and buried? Not.
Share This:So, all the reports are in. Young people are leaving Facebook in droves. Facebook, they say, is dead and buried. Well, to quote Mark Twain, “The reports of my death have been greatly...
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Checking your smartphone again? It’s an object of emotional supply
Share This: There it is, in your pocket itching away. Did you feel it buzz? Did you check it anyway, even if you didn’t feel it buzz? Just in case there was a notification you missed? Or perhaps...
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