Psychic retreats or psychic pits?: Unbearable States of mind and technological addiction

Psychoanalytic Psychology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 115-132

  Schimmenti, Adriano ^a   Caretti, Vincenzo ^b  

^a KORE UNIVERSITY OF ENNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Addiction; Assessment; Dissociation; Psychic retreats; Psychotechnology; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; AFFECT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CHILD NEGLECT; DEHUMANIZATION; DENIAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERNET ADDICTION; PSYCHIC RETREAT; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOSOCIAL WITHDRAWAL; PSYCHOTRAUMA; TECHNOLOGICAL ADDICTION;

EID: 77952923705     PISSN: 07369735     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019414     Document Type: Article

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