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The Digital Age on the Couch: Psychoanalytic Practice and New Media is a stunning contribution on the meaning and effect of technology vis-à-vis contemporary society, our lives, and the therapies we conduct. Happily, this book is the work of a single author, developing her views beyond those expressed in her co-edited book, the timely Psychoanalysis in the Technoculture Era (Lemma and Caparrotta 2014). Part I, “Outside In,” comprises three chapters on the real and virtual body, sexual identity formation, and disintermediation of desire (featuring a cogent analysis of the movie Her). Part II, “Inside Out,” has a chapter on technology-mediated psychotherapy, concluding with five pointers on how to conduct mediated therapy responsibly. Its other chapter focuses on the “digital transference” of patients who use technology to invade their analyst's privacy and preference for neutrality, express hostility and longing, and defend against rejection.