Internet-related psychosis - A sign of the times?

Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 207-211

  Nitzan, Uri ^a,b   Shoshan, Efrat ^a,b   Lev Ran, Shaul ^a,b   Fennig, Shmuel ^a,b  

^a SHALVATA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 80755172281     PISSN: 03337308     EISSN: 26172402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Bollas C. Cyberspace. Psychoanal Rev 2007;94:7-10.
2. Sher L. Social events and scientific innovations may affect the content of delusions. South Med J 2000;93: 440-441.
3. Stompe T, Ortwein-Swoboda G, Ritter K, Schanda H. Old wine in new bottles? Stability and plasticity of the contents of schizophrenic delusions. Psychopathology 2003;36:6-12.
4. Oreilly M. Internet addition: A new disorder enters the medical lexicon. Can Med Assoc J 1996;154:1882-1883.
5. Catalano G, Catalano MC, Embi CS, Frankel RL. Delusions about the internet. South Med J 1999;92:609-610.
6. Bell V, Grech E, Maiden C, Halligan PW, Ellis HD. Internet delusions: A case series and theoretical integration. Psychopathology 2005;38:144-150.
7. Lerner V, Libov I, Witztum E. "Internet Delusions": The impact of technological developments on the content of psychiatric symptoms. Isr J Psychiatry Relat Sci 2006;43: 47-51.
8. Compton MT. Internet delusions. South Med J 2003;96:61-63.
9. th edition). Manchester: Manchester University, 1963.
10. Zhao S. The digital self: Through the looking glass of telecopresent others. Symbolic Interaction 2005;28:387-405.
11. Zizek S. What can psychoanalysis tell us about cyberspace? Psychoanal Rev 2004;91:801-830.
12. Dimitrijevic A. Narrating postmodern selfhood: Autobiographical, existential, and cyberspace aspects. Symbolic Interaction 2006;29:587-594.
13. Simmel G. George Simmel on individuality and social forms. Levine DN, editor. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1973.
14. Walther JB. Computer-mediated communication. Impersonal, interpersonal, and hyperpersonal interaction. Comm Res 1996;23:1-43.
15. Curtis AE. The claustrum: Sequestration of cyberspace. Psychoanal Rev 2007;94:99-141.
16. Parker I. Psychoanalytic cyberspace, beyond psychology. Psychoanal Rev 2007;94:63-84.
17. th Century. Psychoanal Psychol 2003;20:487-508.
18. Pope HG, Jonas JM, Hudson JI, Cohen BM, Tohen M. An empirical study of psychosis in borderline personality disorder. Am J Psychiatry 1985;142:1285-1290.
19. Chopra HD, Beatson JA. Psychotic symptoms in borderline personality disorder. Am J Psychiatry 1986;143:1605-1607.
20. Raune D, Kuipers E, Bebbington P. Stressful and intrusive life events preceding first episode psychosis. Epidemiol Psichiatr Soc 2009; 18: 221-228.
21. Freeman D, Garety PA. Connecting neurosis and psychosis: The direct influence of emotion on delusions and hallucinations. Behav Res Ther 2003; 41: 923-947