Interpersonal Relations Network: Are they real?

Day after day it becomes clearer where the network has for many people in the way they relate (in some cases only). This phenomenon like the Internet is growing by leaps and bounds, is opening in the new psychology questions or questions. Is it positive or not this type of linkage? is a healthy and effective way to join or magnified or hidden pathologies of character and / or psychological disorders?

Some authors refer to the online space as a "psychological space?, Full of meanings, symbols, an extension of individual intraspsíquico world, blending fantasy, conscious and unconscious desires, transferential projections, the oneiric.

Unlike in-person relationship, the network has specific characteristics as a social space is limited from the time the physical interaccción is excluded. In the network identity can be forged, altered or can remain anonymous, transforming the interaction in a fantasy detached from anything real. In the network transcends the special limit and the parties have an equal opportunity to communicate.

This new psychological space gives many an opportunity to strengthen positive supplemental new relationships, maintain a daily and fluid communication with others, and generally no greater risks.

However, it is important to consider in this analysis of the linkages and interactions over the Internet to people who have characteristics of introversion, low self esteem, relationship and intimacy issues, and trends or addictive behaviors because they are the most susceptible and vulnerable to consequences negative.

Of special attention is the person with schizoid tendencies or personality, characterized by the inability to establish real links. Schizoid relational conflict is centered in great need of approach faces a great fear of being "eaten?, So therefore tends to maintain "a distance? to ensure safety psychic. This great terror of intimacy keeps alone. The network is a vehicle for this person's dysfunctional relationship and way of perpetuating the pathology and therefore the psychological suffering.

It is also important to consider compulsive personalities are characterized by jumping into action without considering consequences and alternatives and great for internal control and handling, as these are the ones most at risk of becoming addicted to this medium .. As the same internet, we are just starting to go a little-known but still land with enormous opportunities to explore new approaches and theoretical and clinical.

Silvina Belmonte, LMHC