ethics of virtual therapy
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The Work of Therapy in the Age of Artificial Reproduction
Benjamin argues aura persists where transmissible experience still resists mechanisation. hence the obligation of facing fragile personhood endures beyond digitizing therapy’s surface features. While technology cannot replace moral presence, it may widen therapeutic outreach if guided by ethical care rather than vulgar profit. Benjamin exposes grave loss but also emancipatory openings when historic auras fade.… Continue reading
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Reflections from a therapy room 