McLuhan, New Media and Psychotherapy

This 30-minute video explores McLuhan's concept that the media we use to communicate actually transform the human psyche.

Oral culture made us religious, print culture made us rational, electronic culture will make us ... what?

Could it be that the DSM categories of mental disorder are actually tracking not mental illness, but rather the psychic effects of a culture in technological transition?

The video poses questions for psychotherapists in the 21st century. As electronic media become dominant, rationality declines, the personal self gives way to a re-tribalized group identity, and virtual reality becomes the source of intimacy. Where does this leave psychotherapy?