John Suler, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
Rider University - suler@mindspring.com

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This hypertext book explores the psychological aspects of environments created by computers and online networks. It presents an evolving conceptual framework for understanding how people react to and behave within cyberspace: what I call "the psychology of cyberspace" - or simply "cyberpsychology." Continually being revised and expanded, this hypertext book originally was created in January of 1996. See the article index which indicates the articles most recently added and revised.

In order to make these readings accessible to as many people as possible, I have written them in a style that is not overly abstract or technical. Important concepts in psychology and psychoanalytic theory appear throughout the book, but I try to present them in an "experience-near" rather than "experience-distant" way that I hope makes them useful in understanding everyday living in cyberspace. The emphasis is on practical concepts rather than purely academic ones. Other versions of these articles appear in various professional journals. These publications are indicated within the articles and in the article index.

Below is the table of contents for the seven major sections in this book. Clicking on a bullet will produce a pop-up window containing an abstract of the article in that section. Some browsers may not support this feature. The article index contains summaries of all the articles, including their date of publication and revision. This book also contains a search engine as well as a subject index similar to those in hardcopy books . All links on this home page produce a pop-up window that is placed on top of this page. The graphic that appears to the right of each of the seven sections below is a link to the part of the overview article that summarizes the articles within that section.

CE Credit is available for some of the articles in this book. For more information visit the Behavioral EDU course catalog or see this page about the PsyBC program.


|| Overview and "Guided Tour" ||
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1. The Basic Psychological Qualities of Cyberspace
2. The Psychology of the Individual in Cyberspace
3. The Psychology of Cyberspace Relationships
4. Group Dynamics in Cyberspace
5. Research Methods in Cyberpsychology
6. Life at the Palace

This section of The Psychology of Cyberspace contains a collection of articles about my intensive case study of the online multimedia community known as the "Palace." Combining features of MOOs and chat rooms, the Palace is a visual and spatial environment where members interact with text, sounds, and graphical representations of themselves called "avatars."
7. Psychotherapy and Clinical Work in Cyberspace

This section contains articles that cover a range of topics, including: a conceptual model for conducting clinical work in cyberspace; online clinical case study groups; clinical work in online communities; avatar psychotherapy; computerized psychotherapy; legal and ethical issues. For those who are interested in rounding out their education about psychotherapy in cyberspace, this section also contains a list of suggested readings in the Psychology of Cyberspace and elsewhere on the web.




Article and Page Index
a list of the articles on this site
by date of publication/revision		 Subject Index
alphabetized list of subjects and
terms appearing in the articles		 Search Engine
search for key words
in the articles
Other Cyberpsychology Resources

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