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Virtually You: The Dangerous Powers of the E-Personality by Elias Aboujaoude, W.W. Norton & Company, 349 pages
According to Stanford University School of Medicine psychiatrist Elias Aboujaoude, "Our lives as we have known them, with our in- between IQs, so-so jobs, and bodies that leave something to be desired, now become boring in comparison with the online lives we have built or Photoshopped for ourselves. In the worst cases, one of two outcomes follows: self hatred, i.e., something that resembles depression, or a total immersion in virtual life, i.e., something that resembles psychosis."See the full content of this document
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To a lesser extent, creating an online presence for one's self is a modern form of personality configuration, an act of redefining, in many cases, what is real and what is possible for ourselves. But as we continue to create murky psychological divides between o...
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