ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that technology and new media present people with as many risks as they do opportunities: what makes the difference is how they use them. It explores the ways in which the way a patient uses technology and new media might afford opportunities alongside an analytic process. The chapter focuses on how bodies become through their relations with the multitude of images, representations and visceral experiences that new technologies make possible remotely to suggest that an imagined embodiment facilitated by technology and new media may support a constructive psychic developmental process. It draws on Deleuze's concept of 'becoming' to propose a model for approaching people's thinking about the body and technology grounded in process where bodies and technology/new media are seen as constituted through their relationship. The chapter shows how the so-called freedom afforded by cyberspace for somatic flexibility might impact on an individual's body image and sense of self.
