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Depth Psychology in the Digital Age


When Status Anxiety is No Longer Just in Your Head: a review of Black Mirror’s Nosedive
Many will be familiar with Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror series which aims to reach just slightly into the future – it could be the day...


Leaning Out: How the “Will to Share” is Changing Us
Time reports the the number of deaths by selfie are rising due to the risks individuals are taking in order to capture them. Incidences...


Psychotherapy Online: The Not So Final Analysis
A Psychotherapy for Today: research, development, and practice in the digital age The Psychology of Online Space: where is it? Online...


Checking your smartphone again? It’s an object of emotional supply
Some research is has shown that heavy smartphone users will experience higher anxiety their phones were removed for up to an hour, while...


Has AirBnB Lost its soul? The breaking dream of the sharing economy
It’s global, but it takes a village The Internet may be global, but for a while it seemed that we could make it a village too. Alongside...


The Spectre of Memory: Psychoanalysing Bond
That Proustian Moment If you think I’m pushing things by finding Proust in Bond, here is my evidence. The most famous passage in Proust’s...


Internet Privacy is About More than Security: it’s about psychology too
Internet privacy probably isn’t quite the topic of concern that it probably ought to be. It strikes me that if people were really able to...


When you can’t reach out and touch someone: more research into psychotherapy by Skype
This typical ad from 1987 demonstrates this by showing us how a mother’s intuition overcomes the obstacles of a disembodied voice. Like...


Sacred, Profane, or just Banal? Research into Online (Skype) Psychotherapy
The psychology of doing psychotherapy online through a screen, Part Four of our real-life research series.


The Tinderisation of Everyday Life: when too much choice backfires
When romance and intimacy are mediated through an app, interesting things happen - and this goes beyond the psychology of online dating.
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