The digital world atrophies narrative capacity

The psychoanalyst and writer Lola López Mondéjar (Molina de Segura, Murcia, 1958) detected the phenomenon in her office. Over the years, she observed, increasingly perplexed, the increasing inability of her patients to explain themselves, to say where their discomfort came from and to elaborate a story about themselves, to try to relate their symptoms to their biography. She consulted with more colleagues and they had all experienced the same th…