The Silicon Syndrome

Too often, the casualties of our high-tech, high-anxiety computer revolution are the marriages and relationships of those closest to it. Ironically, as computers speed communications between nations and corporations, the people who work with computers find themselves victims of the Silicon Syndrome--a crippling lack of communication with their non technical mates. The engineer-scientist vs the imaginative and emotional. It is as if one speaks Chinese, the other French--they do not know how to translate each other. And the results of this can be devastating.Psychotherapist and marriage counselor Jean Hollands has observed first-hand and treated many symptoms of the Silicon Syndrome--alcoholism, depression, sexual disorders, obesity, family breakdown, emotional burn-out, and others. Now, in this groundbreaking book, she offers specific solutions of couples facing stress which threatens to pull them apart. And her advice is equally important for many others in high-tech relationships.Here, based on her personal experiences as a family therapist in the Silicon Valley, is a workable, interactive program of reconciliation rather than resentment, negotiation rather than negativism. She explores the reasons for the breakdown of sexual communication and how to