People who express concern that the Internet and other new communication technologies are eroding the quantity and quality of social relationships can take heart from the report in today's NYT.
Psychiatry, especially in rural swaths of the nation that also often have deep social problems like poverty and drug abuse, is emerging as one of the most promising expressions of telemedicine...
Some things did not happen as expected. Dr. Gibson predicted, for example, that at least one patient would incorporate the teleconferencing technology into his or her delusions and come to believe that telemedicine could be used to read people's thoughts or get inside their heads.
To the contrary, in matters of the psyche — two people in two rooms looking at each other across a cool electronic medium — it is still all about human connection.
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