Gaudet’s first novel is an epic meditation on the Internet as the ultimate medium for projecting our desires and fears about human destiny. In the near future, Paul Devorer, a visionary technology guru, emerges from a corporate laboratory to start the first religion based entirely in the online world. A so-called media terrorist seeks to destroy him, promoting an alternative vision of the nature of personal identity in a media-saturated culture where our collective faith in digital connectivity manifests as a kind of religious mania. In the book, Gaudet also satirically chronicles the rise of “media therapy” as an emerging “healing art” that classifies new areas of psychic dysfunction: media diseases such as “browser rage,” “multi-tasking tic” and “symbolic correctness.” An original, deeply satirical and highly acclaimed work, Media Therapy earned Gaudet one reviewer’s praise as “heir to McLuhan.”