Virtually You by Elias Aboujaoude Md
While the Internet can enhance well-being, Elias Aboujaoude has spent years treating patients whose lives have been profoundly disturbed by it. Part of the danger lies in how the Internet allows us to act with exaggerated confidence, sexiness, and charisma. Aboujaoude dubs this new self our e-personality and argues that its traits are too potent to be confined online. Offline, too, we re becoming impatient, unfocused, and urge-driven. Virtually You draws from Aboujaoude s personal and professional experience to highlight this new phenomenon. The first scrutiny of the virtual world s transformative power on our psychology, Virtually You demonstrates how real life is being reconfigured in the image of a chat room, and how our identity increasingly resembles that of our avatar.
"A unique psychiatrist's perspective and an urgent wake-up call" -- Kirkus Reviews
"A book that not only has been needed for several years but could become a modern classic." -- Alan F. Schatzberg, American Psychiatric Association
"A book that not only has been needed for several years but could become a modern classic." -- Alan F. Schatzberg, American Psychiatric Association
Elias Aboujaoude, MD, a Stanford University psychiatrist, earned an MD from Stanford University and a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley. He lives in San Francisco.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780393340549 |
| ISBN 10 | 0393340546 |
| Title | Virtually You |
| Author | Elias Aboujaoude Md |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 2012-04-03 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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