therapy or therapeutic... an alternative view

• is therapy on-line really therapy or just therapeutic? by Vicky Laszlo, 2/24/99
  • therapy or just therapeutic? by Leonard Holmes, 3/10/99
    
    

It is interesting to ponder on web based therapy in its efforts to provide 'therapy'. I use email counselling and also facilitate an unlisted online rape support group. I do believe that online therapy can be therapy. But I suppose that if we constantly strive to define online therapy within the framework of f2f then it will always be lacking. Virtual reality does not equate to actual reality. However f2f therapy also has artificial constraints. Perhaps we need to look at some of the innovations of the email medium independently of f2f structure. It does not supplant f2f but it does have a unique validity that can provide therapy for some...

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