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Depth Psychology in the Digital Age

The Unconscious of Social Media

  • May 20, 2019
  • 1 min read

Updated: May 22, 2023

In 2014 I published The Psychodynamics of Social Networking: connected-up instantaneous culture and the self. Since then I have been travelling around the world sharing how I apply insights from contemporary psychoanalysis to contemporary phenomena like social media. I am happy to now share with you a video recorded at Stillpoint Spaces Berlin where I make these ideas accessible to the attendees there with an accessible seminar on the subject followed by a Q & A. I really hope you enjoy!


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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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