What This Book Promises You

This book is for anyone who spends a significant portion of their workday on video calls: managers, educators, therapists, HR professionals, and students. It will be useful for those who notice "camera anxiety," parents of teenagers in online school, and interface designers.

The material is divided into three logical blocks:

Part I reveals the mechanism of Self-View Fixation: why the brain cannot ignore its own face and how the "digital mirror" overloads the nervous system.
Part II focuses on diagnostics—the seven motives that sustain fixation and the vicious cycles behind them.
Part III offers specific tools for therapy and prevention for individuals, teams, and platforms.

How to cite

Open access · Licensed under CC BY 4.0

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21108159

Sapkin, A. (2026). Self-View Fixation: How the digital mirror drains attention, fuels hyper-control, and drives anxiety. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21108159

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