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Depth Psychology in the Digital Age


AI, Therapy, and the Digitally Extended Self: A Comprehensive Psychodynamic Exploration
Artificial intelligence is reshaping mental health, intimacy, and the very idea of what it means to relate to others. This is a consolidation and expansion of my Substack series on AI and Mental Health which has been updated with new thinking and links to further research and resources.


On Interbeing: AI, Synthetic Relationships, and the Cosmic Unconscious: In conversation with Nathalie Nahai
I recently had the great joy of speaking to long-time friend Nathalie Nahai to talk all things psychoanalysis and tech on her In Conversation podcast. In it we discuss the complexities of the global human psyche, exploring themes of fear, the impact of AI on therapy, and the nature of synthetic relationships. We cover the challenges posed by technology in human connection, the polarisation of society, and the need for economic and social change. The dialogue also touches on


How to talk about Adolescence with your son: Out Now on GQ
Thanks to the Netflix show, many parents will be contemplating discussing incels, misogyny and porn with their teenage boys for the first time. In his first of a new regular contribution to GQ, psychotherapist Dr Aaron Balick offers some advice on how to do it the right way.


Tossing Off Tweets Faster Than A Teenager With High Speed Broadband: The Self-Radicalisation of Elon Musk
Musk’s posts are a descent into a death-spiral of addictive posting and sensation seeking: the self-radicalisation of Elon Musk.


Where Artificial Intelligence Meets Human Psychology: Are We Hardwired to F*ck This All Up?
As AI restructures the world around us, we are only beginning to realise how human psychology makes us too stupid to meet the challenge.


Individuation Interrupted: AI, Creativity, and the Quest for Meaning
AI can perform creativity, but can it spark the self-realisation and growth that human beings really need?


What Is So Scary About AI? A Spooky Psychology Special
Why does AI chill us to the core? Explore our deepest psychological fears from the uncanny to the truly terrifying.


Can AI Bring Closure to Freud and Jung's Broken Friendship?
In the month of April 1913, a final missive was exchanged between Freud and Jung, permanently putting an end to their and intense friendship


Is AI Making Us Stupid? The Dangers of Making Hard Things Too Easy
The better AI gets, the more we risk outsourcing the very challenges that help make us who we are.
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