Visiting the Online Shrink

www.sr.se ^ | 06/20/2007 | www.sr.se

[WesternCulture]

People who have anxiety problems or depression can get just as good help on the Internet as face-to-face with a psychiatrist, according to a Swedish investigation,

Now a new Internet service is being expanded.

This means Sweden will become the first country in the world to offer cognitive behavior therapy via the Internet as a routine method for treating patients who have problems such as social phobias or panic attacks.

Psychiatrists say the online service will compliment traditional care and it means more people can be treated, more cheaply. But critics say sitting at a computer simply can’t be as effective as face-to-face talks with experts.

[WesternCulture]

“I cut short my post and didn’t explain that I felt much more open in relating things in my personal life online also. So.... I could definitely see how it would help people with phobias, etc. :)”

- I guess you’re right.

Nice talkin’ to ya.

[caveat emptor]

Due to the differences between TV and Computers, I think watching TV always will be associated with stupidity and Computers with intelligence.

Forty years ago , or even 20 years ago there may have been some validity to that viewpoint, but today there is a much greater volume of ignorance and arrogance, if not outright stupidity , on the internet than on TV (stupidity in humans is constant IMO - within, if not across, racial/cultural subgroups).

And getting back to your original time frame (within 10 years), there will be by then just a single technology. New technology which reconfigures pixels to greatly reduce the size/weight of displays is well advanced, and soon every cell "phone" will be a fully functional phone/TV, with clear, crisp movie quality images.

When I first heard of this a couple of years ago I was skeptical - who wants to watch movies on a cell phone, I thought. Well, a good deal of what shows up on the internet is now unavailable to me (think Utube) because I live in the wilderness and have only dialup internet access.

I thought you (swedes) did get a few things right in the 40s and 50s.

[WesternCulture]

“And getting back to your original time frame (within 10 years), there will be by then just a single technology. New technology which reconfigures pixels to greatly reduce the size/weight of displays is well advanced, and soon every cell “phone” will be a fully functional phone/TV, with clear, crisp movie quality images.”

- Yes, a lot of people think so.

I guess PC technology will become more and more integrated with TV technology (and cell phone technology).

Whatever the technology behind it all will be and whatever software will be used, it’s likely we won’t have a PC AND a Plasma/LCD TV, we’ll probably just have multipurpose ‘screens’ so to say and key boards we move around (or, at least, keyboards, printers etc will all be based on wireless technology and hopefully, all units will be more compatible with eachother than they are today).
But what about the hard drive? Will it be integrated with our ‘multipurpose screens’ or a separate unit?

“I thought you (swedes) did get a few things right in the 40s and 50s.”

- Yes, but perhaps we should have joined the NATO?

Regards.

[caveat emptor]

Yes, but perhaps we should have joined the NATO?

Don't you need an army for that? Check out this tough överfurir.

Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against Sweden.I drove (used) Volvos for years, have seen most of Ingmar Bergman's films, and would have one of these if I could afford it. But joining NATO after WWII is a bit of a stretch, and touting the internet as intelligent and TV as stupid is just, well, stupid. Cheerio.

[WesternCulture]

“touting the internet as intelligent and TV as stupid”

- Do you mean to say that’s what I’ve been doing above?

[caveat emptor]

"touting the internet as intelligent and TV as stupid." Do you mean to say that’s what I’ve been doing above?

If I have misinterpreted your statements, then I apologize.