title: No more away: techno-attachments and the relational future.
abstract: This paper speculates about the impact of techno-connectedness on our children, ourselves, our grandchildren. Triggered by recollections from Victorian novels that describe European summers "away" from home, a concern about loss of opportunity, the "space" for self-discovery in this young generation will be explored in a relational context. Brought about by pervasive dependence upon computer technology, is self-experience fragmented and attachment changed by the ubiquitous technological presence and is the more isolated, reflective experience being eroded?
authors.affiliation: Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles, California, USA.
authors.forename: Christina R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Griffin
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008513:Medicine in Literature; D009769:Object Attachment; D010553:Personality Development; D018907:Privacy / Q000523:psychology*; D012931:Social Environment; D013672:Technology