DOI: https://doi.org/10.36347/sasjm.2026.v12i03.013

Pages: 225-234

Social networks, a recent phenomenon driven by the continuous development of information and communication technologies, have invaded the intersubjective and social space of exchange and communication. The intense activity of information production and circulation unfolds there in real time, instantaneously, linking receivers (Always available and waiting) and givers/senders (Driven by a constant creative dynamic) within a dialectical relationship of transmission and influence, as well as a complicity that often stems from simple faith and highlights the dangerous and progressive loss of all critical thinking…. The clinical psychologist, witnessing the havoc wrought by these networks in shaping individual identities and consciousness, the reliability of information disseminated, often for the purpose of manipulation, and, more generally, the addictions that are thus created and the resulting consequences, is therefore particularly called upon, from a dual perspective: the theoretical and scientific mastery of the phenomenon on the one hand, and the indication of possible therapy for the effects of social networks and in particular the addictions they create, the individual and social consequences of which are numerous.