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How to Break Up with Your Phone

Disciplines:
self-help
technology
wellbeing/digital wellness
psychology/behavior change

Summary

Catherine Price's 2018 practical guide to reducing smartphone dependency — combining the behavioral science of phone addiction with a 30-day plan for establishing a healthier relationship with technology.

Core Contribution

Provides the most structured and science-based practical intervention for smartphone overuse — moving from understanding the dopaminergic design of smartphones to a concrete behavioral protocol for reducing compulsive checking.

Historical Influences

Catherine Price

Intellectual Lineage

Digital Wellness LiteratureBehavior Change BooksScience Journalism

Allied Works

Digital MinimalismStolen Focus The Shallows

Contemporaries & Peers

Digital MinimalismStolen Focus Irresistible

Minds Influenced

Digital wellness community Screen time discourse

Intellectual Posterity

Phone breakup protocol

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