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Deviances on line: sexting and cyberbullying. Psychopathology of the phenomenon and some considerations psychodynamic
Journal Title: PSICOLOGIA DI COMUNITA’ 
Author/s: Fabio Rapisarda 
Year:  2018 Issue: 1 Language: Italian 
Pages:  19 Pg. 89-107 FullText PDF:  233 KB
DOI:  10.3280/PSC2018-001006
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The following job, examining the notable diffusion of some deviant phenomena on line as the cyberbullying (threats insisted medium and a mail and a halves of communication on line) and the sexting (dispatch of in demand offensive pornographic material not), it underlines the role that you/they have both in the victims and in the abusers the lines of personality, the family environment and the relationship with the contemporaries, considering that the victims for the greatest part are adolescent. The author traces a psychodynamic reading of the phenomena, also underlining the utility of a psychotherapeutic treatment both for the abusers and for the victims, considering that above all this last ones could fall in depressive crisis.
Keywords: Cyberbullying, abuse, treatment, prevention

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Fabio Rapisarda, Deviances on line: sexting and cyberbullying. Psychopathology of the phenomenon and some considerations psychodynamic in "PSICOLOGIA DI COMUNITA’" 1/2018, pp. 89-107, DOI:10.3280/PSC2018-001006

   

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