Psychoanalysis in the Technoculture Era

Alessandra Lemma is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytic Society, Visiting Professor in the Psychoanalysis Unit at University College London, and Visiting Professor of Psychological Therapies at Essex University. She is the Director of the Psychological Therapies Development Unit at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust and an Adult Psychotherapist at the Portman Clinic. Luigi Caparrotta is a Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy and a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society. He works in the NHS for Camden and Islington Foundation Trust and in private practice.

• Fonagy, Preface.Caparrotta, Lemma, Introduction. Sabbadini, New Technologies and the Psychoanalytic Setting. Gabbard, Cyberpassion: E-rotic transference and the Internet. Savege Scharff, Clinical Issues in Analyses over the Telephone and the Internet. Guignard, Psychic Development in a Virtual World. Lemma, An Order of Pure Decision: Growing up in a Virtual World and the Adolescent’s Experience of the Body. Bonaminio, A Perfect World and Its Imperfections: Psychoanalytic Clinical Notes on Adolescence and Virtual Reality. Wood, Internet Offenders from a Sense of Guilt.

"This book launches the first serious discussion of clinical psychoanalysis in a global community that now uses advanced forms of communication that necessarily alter some aspects of practice when analysts conduct an analysis in cyberspace. The authors have differing views, concentrate on separate aspects of this challenge, and this important text will serve as the embarkation point for a debate that will continue for a very long time". - Christopher Bollas, PhD, is a psychoanalyst practising in London.