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Advances in Psychiatric Treatment (2006) 12: 368-374
© 2006 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

Opportunities and risks in e-therapy{dagger}

Digby Tantam

Digby Tantam is Clinical Professor of Psychotherapy at the University of Sheffield (Centre for the Study of Conflict and Reconciliation, University of Sheffield School of Health and Related Research, 30 Regent Street, Sheffield S6 6GJ, UK. Email: d.tantam{at}sheffield.ac.uk). He is Co-Director of the University’s Centre for the Study of Conflict and Reconciliation, Director of the Section of Mental Health within the School of Health and Related Research, and Deputy Director of Teaching for the School. He is also an honorary consultant psychotherapist and psychiatrist in Sheffield Care Trust. His current research interests include the evaluation of internet-based learning and teaching.

The world wide web has many advantages for the psychotherapist and for the client, but it poses new challenges too. This article considers both in relation to information, disinformation and information overload; openness and availability of information; and the anomalies of being present, and able to meet other presences, in virtual space but with no physical body and with an identity that may be created for the occasion.


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