DEPENDENȚA DIGITALĂ: PATOLOGIE, REMEDII PSIHOLOGICE ȘI DUHOVNICEȘTI
DIGITAL ADDITCTION: PATHOLOGY, PSHYCHOLOGICAL AND SPIRITUAL TREATMENTS

Author(s): Vasile Crețu
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Psychology, Sociology, Theology and Religion, Individual Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Personality Psychology, Substance abuse and addiction, Health and medicine and law, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Editura Eikon
Keywords: digital addiction; pathology; psychological treatment; spiritual treatment; social networks;
Summary/Abstract: The digital addiction is already acknowledged by the medical specialists as a mental disorder, because it involves a pathological use of the computer or of any other type of technology, characterized by the urgent need to engage in online activities to the obvious detriment of daily and real life (school, family, friendships, etc.). This type of attitude is also dealing to other behavioural disorders. Some psychologists are comparing the states (involving changes in brain maps) caused by digital addiction to those of "classic" (somatic) addictions. Thus, a similarity was identified between the abuse of psychotropic and hallucinogenic substances, which chemically alter the human brain, and the abuse of the virtual space, which psychologically affects the human being as a whole. This is clearly a phenomenon, specific to post-modernity, unprecedented in its scale in history.

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