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Virtually You The Dangerous Powers of the E-Personality

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ISBN-10: 0393340546

ISBN-13: 9780393340549

Edition: 2012

Authors: Elias Aboujaoude

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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…    
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Book details

List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/7/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 0.55" wide x 0.83" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English

Elias Aboujaoudeis Director of the Impulse Control Disorders Clinic at Stanford University School of Medicine. His work has been featured inThe New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times,on the NBC Nightly News, and elsewhere.

Preface
E-Personality
Delusions of Grandeur
Narcissism
Ordinary Everyday Viciousness
Impulsivity
Infantile Regression and the Tyranny of the Emoticon
Love and Sex Recalibrated
The Illusion of Knowledge
Internet Addiction
The End of Privacy
Marking Time, Making Memories
Virtualism, or the Art of Being More Real than Real
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Young's Internet Addiction Test
Notes
Index