ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to explore the opportunities afforded by the digital revolution in promoting contact between individuals and establishing communities that can have a therapeutic effect. It describes how psychoanalysis afforded a deeper understanding of mankind’s group behaviour, which led to an appreciation of how communities can function. The chapter examines how the Tavistock and Portman National Health Service Foundation Trust, recognizing the opportunities of the digital world, has established a partnership with an online well-being service, Big White Wall, to promote the well-being of its members, through the facilitation of its community activities and positive relationships. In 1986, the World Health Organization described how individual orientated interventions may reduce the health hazards of the individual, but the very significant environmental hazards, such as a lack of the good nutrition, housing, employment, or education, require a community-orientated intervention.
