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Cyber-adicţiile și remedii psihologice și duhovnicești împotriva lor (II)
Cyber-Addictions And Psychological And Spiritual Remedies for Them (II)

Author(s): Ioan C. Teşu
Subject(s): Pastoral Theology, Eastern Orthodoxy
Published by: Renaşterea Cluj
Keywords: printed books; reading; high-tech technology; addiction to technology; virtual hyper communication; personal relationship between people; Jean-Claude Larchet;

Summary/Abstract: Spending too much time in front of high-tech technology to the detriment of real reading and dialogue, direct relationships with peers, real and not imaginary play, contemplation of nature and meditation on real life, leads, in many cases, to obsessive and compulsive behaviors towards technology, to addiction to it. Its forms are isolation and autism, inability to express feelings naturally, poverty in writing and expressing oneself, functional illiteracy, mutism or ADHD syndrome. Paradoxically, social networks, which are considered to have as their essential purpose the development of new connections, instead of eliminating this feeling of physical isolation, of loneliness and existential and spiritual emptiness, often deepen it much more. Virtual hyper communication may do nothing else but diminish empathy, the personal relationship between people, who once looked at each other face to face, eye to eye, spoke openly, really hugged. These things have become, today and in many cases, mediated by technologies.

  • Issue Year: XIV/2020
  • Issue No: 05
  • Page Range: 31-38
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Romanian