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Depth Psychology in the Digital Age

How to talk about Adolescence with your son: Out Now on GQ

  • Apr 14, 2025
  • 1 min read

Owen Cooper as Jamie Miller in Netflix's Adolescence

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 talk about Adolescence with your son the right way.


Adolescence is a freaky metamorphosis. For a boy in its grip, it is both body-horror and psychological thriller; the frightening pace of corporeal transition; the coarse hairs appearing out of nowhere; and the once unproblematic skin suddenly threatening embarrassing eruptions at the worst possible moment...






 
 

Dr Aaron Balick is a psychotherapist, author, and keynote speaker who applies depth psychology — the study of the unconscious forces shaping human behaviour — to technology, AI, and modern culture. His perspective is grounded in something relatively rare in this conversation: more than two decades of clinical experience alongside proven academic credentials. He is a clinical psychotherapist, former Director of the MA in Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex, and the author of The Psychodynamics of Social Networking — the first book to apply psychoanalytic theory to social media. He also writes a monthly psychology column for GQ. Through his framework of Applied Psychodynamics, he helps leaders, organisations, and public audiences understand what is really happening beneath the surface of digital life — and what to do about it. He is based in London.

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