Table of Contents

Cover, front material, original table of contents, author information
Introduction	1
Gary Gumpert and Sandra L. Fish
1
Therapeutic Communication	10
Dean C. Barnlund
2
The Nature of Therapeutic Communication	29
Gary L. Kreps
3
Mediated Interpersonal Communication: Toward a New Typology	39
Robert Cathcart and Gary Gumpert
4
Media Psychology and Mediated Therapeutic Communication	54
Jacqueline C. Bouhoutsos
5
Listening to Dr. Ruth: The New Sexual Primer	73
Jane Banks
6
Talk Radio: The Private-Public Catharsis	87
Robert K. Avery
7
Ann Landers' Mediated Advice: The Intersection of Rhetorical and Interpersonal Forms	98
Virginia H. Fry with Jody H. Wrightson
8
Electronic Advice Columns: Humanizing the Machine	112
Laurel Hellerstein
9
The Strange Case of the Electronic Lover	128
Lindsy Van Gelder
10
Remote Sex in the Information Age	143
Gary Gumpert
11
Therapeutic Uses of the Telephone: Crisis Intervention vs. Traditional Therapy	154
Sandra L. Fish
12
Software and Sympathy: Therapeutic Interaction with the Computer	170
Patricia J. Fleming
13
The Therapeutic Learning Program (TLP): Computer-Assisted Short-Term Therapy	184
Roger L. Gould
14
Legal and Ethical Implications of Mediated Therapeutic Communication	200
Susan J. Drucker
15
The Electronic Church as Therapeutic Community	214
Stewart M. Hoover
16
Therapeutic Engagement in Mediated Sports	223
Lawrence A. Wenner
Author Index	245
Subject Index	251