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Frontiers Of Existential Humanistic Psychotherapy: Preserving The Human Element In Cyberspace, Paul Murray Ph.D.,R.Psych.

Dr. Paul Murray

The internet has brought a vast new frontier into our lives, opening up easy access to previously unimagined possibilities as well as presenting us with many, as yet, incomprehensible complexities of operating our lives in cyberspace. Psychotherapy itself is confronted with new opportunities as it has moved from the tradition of the office, to the telephone, to email, and now to the Internet. Video-therapy is here. But how does psychotherapy fit into this new realm? What is the value of applying psychotherapy in this technological forum and what are the limitations of a psychotherapeutic approach via the internet? Can the …