Un Mundo de Respuestas - Las Mil y Una Caras de Internet
La necesidad de ahorrar tiempo y la comodidad de hacer todo desde casa dieron lugar a una nueva forma de relacionarse, comprar y hasta trabajar a través de Internet.
Lo cierto es que, si bien es más fácil y rápido, la vida virtual es cada vez más amplia pero no reemplaza al contacto directo.
Reportaje realizado al psicólogo Marcelo Sitnisky en el periódico InfoRegión.
Relations and Internet
Máximo Lameiro y Roberto Sanchez in their excellent investigation about new ways of interaction arrive to the following conclusion by saying:
Like any significant technological innovation, Internet brings some distrust that hides a deep apprenheaviness: fear that the new technological device destroys the human capacities that wants to replace.
Related to Internet and the new technologies, is the dreaded image of a person (alone) against the dying light of his/her monitor, away from his/her peers, away from the world “communicating” only with his/her computer .
…The current investigation has come to show us that this image is false, that Internet like most of technologies comes to maximize not to destroy. In any case it is about an instrument, depend on us the usage we give to this device.
The interviewed in this investigation said that Internet allow them to communicate with other people, with people (let us add) that otherwise would not even come to know..
The relation built with these people (that literally can be, in any place around the world) are often care and strengthened showing interest in the others that is not consistent with the cold image of a computer
One of the features that allow these relationships will be enhanced is not always present in the “face to face” relations: it is the reflexive communication. People that communicate through Internet take the necessary time to think before answering a message.
Even thou this new interpersonal, it is conditioned (at the beginning) by the technology, It is renewed in each personal relationship, enriching both the content of the exchanges and the development of the human relationship itself.
The aforementioned reflexivity (and its effects) also debunks negative myth about computers: like atrophy thoughts, on the contrary it can be a vehicle used to think about deep issues, something not easy to achieve in the everyday life
Other important point related to Internet is that allows people to show hidden features of his/her personality that for different reasons remain latent in his/her daily life.
Clearly the personality features that are expressed through internet as positive as well as negative, but should not be judged a mean of communication because allows the expression of pathologic aspects of personality.
Even though it is relevant its capacity of enhance adaptive aspects of people, of allow the expression of a different (or new) subjectivity.
Also it’s important to highlight how the net users feel that belong to a global community. It is in Internet more than any other place where people can meet without barriers between them (also language idiom can be saved)
The conclusions could continue to cover as much space as the investigation itself. We will only add that for those who assume the role of researchers, this job was, first of all, a rich interpersonal experience, not only related to those who has collaborated with the project: but also among ourselves:
Roberto Sanchez and Maximo Lameiro hadn’t seen each other before to start this journey and they still continue without seeing each other, although they are located just four miles away from each other could set up a fluid link exchange and collaboration turned through e mail exclusively.
From the cyber space (otherwise it wouldn’t be possible) worked together and were polishing their personal differences (and their egos) to reach a true product of team
Up dated (Tuesday, September 15Th. 2009 16:48)
The divan is diluted in the web
The virtual psychoterapy is a new technique that start to install in different countries and allow many people that for different reasons cannot go to the psychoanalist office and have very good assistance and right away.
World has been changing. And the aparition of new technologies has led the openning of new interaction spacies and socialization that allowed to modify habits and compliment individual necesseities with new ,fast and efficient solutions jusr only pusshing some buttons.
Since fifteen years ago the technoglogy has been serving to new way to be cloesed to the psichotery in a virtual form Although we are used to the face to face sessions, psichoterapist and pacients, if we trace the origins of this approach we can arrive to Freud. In fact he made treatments by mail, tell us Psychologist Marcelo Sitnisky
This kind ot therapy is the solution to whom suffer from motor problems or phobias, thai are disabled to get out of their houses, cannot get to presenctial and conventional therapies. Itself the trangression of boundaries with the help of the modern technology, allow people that far from the therapyst officie, can Access to the desired treatment and with the chosen profesional.
There exists also people that want to maximized and use the excellent possibilities that now a days tecnology offers. If it is posible that people that don’t know each other, have different kind of contact through internet, if it is posible get excited with something that happens to a person that only we knoe his/her Nick,¿how cannot be posible the option of helping therapeutically someone who is asking for this?. Sitnisky clearly confirm that the virtual psichotherapy, is an option that doesn’t suffer any consequencias of the lack of personal contact between psichoterapyst and pacient, only because in the relationship is involved the tool of the technology like is internet
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Mediated relationships
Even though one of the strongest condiments that has the consulta in the traditional therapy is the possibility that the therapist con be in touch with the non verbal complementary language to the patient speech. These elements can be traced if the therapist is a well prepare dan idóneos one.
The gestual information, the non verbal language that is used in the face therapy is a very important tool for the therapyst, and however in the virtual therapy throught internet,experiences therapysts can catch data and very subtle and important information, that come by the hand of certain silences, certain omissions, are also related to the way the theme are presented and developed. What a client says, and doesn’t say or how does he/she says also con be catched. Assure Sitnisky.
Modalities uses in this new psychotherapy technique vaies according the patinents necessities, It can be through Telephone sessions, by Chat or Skype and also can be an interchange of mails sent and received between therapys and client. Sessions included in the first type last one hour, it’s the same as any psichologist give in his/her office at he momento to interview a patient.
The therapyst process is not different from the normal one. At the beginning of a treatment the client tells the therapyst the reason of the consultation,he/she comes because there is something that annoys him/her and that would like to solve. As son as the prole mis solved, treatment is finished. Many times happen, that after several difficulties, appear others problems that were covert by the first ones. Is this the moment when therapyst and patient analized if the treatment is going to continuos or not Sitnisky says.
Innovation fear
Even though in many countries professionals are more reluctant to adapt to this new way to relate to his/her patients, ansd also it is not recognizae as especiality, the thruth is that is has been converted in a growing tendency that has been accepted even inn hospitals that gives virtual assitance, specially people with eating disorders.
The important issue is the construcction that consultant and therapy are doing during the whole process.It is about rewriting, resignifying the histories we know about ourselves, and which are the responsable for that reasons of our sufferings, conclude.
There are new spaces opening in the virtual spectrum offering each time better and expedetious possibliities to be fine. Only depends on taking the initiative.
