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Pathological computer use is a real problem, a psychiatrist argues
Posted on August 21, 2008
Standpoint magazine, the new right-wing intellectual monthly published by the Social Affairs Unit, has a thoughtful, if tendentious, essay on pathological computer use.Psychiatrist Jerald Block believes more should be done to recognise pathological computer use (PCU) and to devise ways to treat it. PCU is not yet formally recognised as a psychiatric diagnosis but the condition may find its way into the next edition of DSM - the psychiatry's diagnostic bible.Block says it's been proposed that four criteria be met for a diagnosis of PCU: Computer use must be excessive (taking context into ac...
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