An order of pure decision: Growing up in a virtual world and the adolescent's experience of being-in-a-body

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 691-714

  Lemma, Alessandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EGO; HUMAN; INTERNET;

ADOLESCENT; CULTURE; HUMANS; INTERNET; REALITY TESTING;

EID: 78649771670     PISSN: 00030651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0003065110385576     Document Type: Article

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