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The Downside of the Digital World in Treatment and in Learning


American Association of Psychoanalytic Clinical Social Workers

Intrigue, Insight, Inquiry: Through Today's Psychoanalytic Lens in Durham, NC, from March 28-31, 2019.

Presenters

Valerie Frankfeldt, PhD, LCSW

Madelon Sprengnether, PhD

Frankfeldt examines how email and texts can create dilemmas in “The Downside of the Digital World in Treatment”. The difficulty of construing tone, affect, and underlying meaning lend themselves to distortion and misunderstanding. Issues that have arisen as a result of this technology will be illustrated and discussed. Sprengnether will elucidate “How Digital Forms of Communication Affect Learning.” Social media offer popular forms of communication among the young. How do these distant means of connection impact the formation of relationships, from casual to intimate? What goes missing in the absence of face-to-face encounter?  



Earlier Event: October 12
Incongruent Countertransference: A Mismatch Between Patient and Analyst?
Later Event: September 9
When the Picture Doesn’t Fit the Frame: Exploring the Dynamic Tension Between Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice (A Tale of Two Papers)