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The Virtual Universe, the Open Large Group, and Maturational Processes in the Future

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The technology of the future will bring a new, world-wide, interactive but virtual social experience to our parlors and desktops in place of face-to-face relationships. Governments will stand or fall on the basis of electronically mediated communication with masses of people. Adventures in this new open large group context in the outer world, and the maturation of our inner selves may mirror as well as contribute to each other. Small group experience and group therapy, in particular, may play a vital role.

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  1. McLean Hospital; Private Practice, Belmont, MA

    Walker Shields (Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Attending Psychiatrist)

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    Walker Shields (Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Attending Psychiatrist)

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Shields, W. The Virtual Universe, the Open Large Group, and Maturational Processes in the Future. Group 24, 33–48 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007503204361

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