Algorithmic defences against thinking - new article in @TheAmericanPsychoanalyst magazine of @americanpsychologicalAssociation tapmagazine.org/all-articles... @brisunipress.bsky.social @unhappinesspod.bsky.social

UberTherapy and the Enshittification of our Relational Lives: Part 2 of our Interview with Elizabeth Cotton - Mad In America www.madinamerica.com/2026/02/uber... @brisunipress.bsky.social

Next round of submissions to the commission to review the future of therapy. Deadline 25 March. Calling all therapists to take the time to formulate their positions and submit. There's a constitutional committment to read what you have to say. www.pcpb.org.uk www.pcpb.org.uk/commission-f...

Nice one #AndrewSamuels www.theguardian.com/society/2026... @gavinfranc @guardian

Therapeutic Tinder is a provocation about what it means to be a sector of e-commerce shaming the client who isn’t able to get what they want. It individualizes an industrial problem. www.madinamerica.com/2026/02/uber... @brisunipress.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social

UberTherapy and the Enshittification of our Relational Lives: Part 1 of our Interview with @survivingwork.bsky.social and @justinkarterphd @mad-in-america.bsky.social www.madinamerica.com/2026/02/uber... @brisunipress.bsky.social

@404media.co The fascinating @BBCRadio4 #Vastaamo scandal of therapeutic data theft @JennyKleeman is not a one off. Chat & Ask AI leaked data on #mentalhealth & #suicide. www.404media.co/massive-ai-c... www.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/ubertherapy @brisunipress.bsky.social

@psianofficial report here lnkd.in/evTv5t78 Who do you think you are? This week's blog from lnkd.in/ev3EhCF5

You can’t feed a family on 16 hours a week. Yet, this is the brutal reality for commerce workers – especially women – trapped in “involuntary part-time” work. This insecurity fuels the gender pay gap and pension poverty. We demand sustainable jobs and real worker power over hours and schedules.

Who do you think you are? Some end of year reflections on the rise of #UberTherapy in this end of year blog from @survivingwork www.survivingwork.org/surviving-wo... @Psianofficial @datasociety.bsky.social

Most People Want Therapy That Gets to the Root, but Are They Getting It? www.madinamerica.com/2025/03/most...

Join us at the online launch of Asylum Magazine’s special issue on AI and mental health on 19th December 2025 6-7pm. Register here to receive the joining link: bit.ly/Asylumlaunch...

Who do you think you are? A story about #UberTherapy www.survivingwork.org/surviving-wo... #WomenVisibilityWeek #FairnessINtheFeed #wearthepants

Listening to the phenomenal work of @workerinfox.bsky.social & #ReubenBinns @benwray1989.bsky.social on current legal action against @Uber. Hosted by @etuc-ces.bsky.social. Meticulous data driven organizing #platformisation #gigeconomy www.workerinfoexchange.org/post/drivers...

#DavidArmstrong’s book Organization in the Mind is somethink like poetry in its deep and creative curiosity into organisations. In the world of organisational consultancy he’s pretty much the Godfather of the deep work of group relations. www.survivingwork.org/surviving-wo...

Michael Rustin’s open minded and serious book Researching the Unconscious is about as close to a how-to book in researching the unconscious. He’s a meticulous thinker, pedant even, about getting psychoanalytically informed research just right. www.survivingwork.org/surviving-wo...

Methods of Research into the Unconscious edited by Kalina Stamenova and the gentle Robert Hinshelwood is another important guide on how to access the unconscious in research. It will expand your mind about what is possible in researching actual people. www.survivingwork.org/surviving-wo...

David Armstrong’s book is somethink like poetry in its deep and creative curiosity into organisations. He’s pretty much the Godfather of the deep work of group relations and informed my thinking for #ubertherapy @brisunipress.bsky.social @lrb.co.uk www.survivingwork.org/surviving-wo...

Join us at the online launch of Asylum Magazine’s special issue on AI and mental health on 19th December 2025 6-7pm. Register here to receive the joining link: bit.ly/Asylumlaunch...

One of the threads of the story of UberTherapy is that the new business model of mental health acts as a defence against thinking. That it invites us to stop thinking about the systems within which we are working. This week's blog Defences against Thinking www.survivingwork.org/surviving-wo...

One of the truly brave thinkers in #psychoanalysis #SallyWeintrobe who writes with exquisite forensic care about our denial of the reality of #climatecrisis . Sally was part of our project #ThinkersinResidence @thephotographersgallery Archive here a-body-of-work-tpg.tumblr.com

Edited by the marathon men of psychoanalysis #DavidArmstrong & #MichaelRustin this book explains how our anxieties about other people shape our organisations. For a conversation with them about this book go here youtu.be/uc7oC3bCZxs?... www.survivingworkinhealth.org

Not everyone is designed to stare into the abyss but the something-is-better-than-nothing argument supporting ChatGPT Therapy is that it plays upon our ambivalence of having relationships with other people. www.survivingwork.org/surviving-wo... @Adalovelaceinst @oiioxford @digitalgoodnet

The title did make me gasp & pretty much kept going throughout this remarkable edited book. How psychoanalysis can help you think about things you want to back away from. Brave stuff from profoundly experienced practitioners @TaviAndPort #DavidMorgan and #StanleyRuszczynski

Just the number of post it notes alone should indicate how useful this book was in forming my ideas about the uberization of therapy. Denigration of care in the UK, how very dare you from the thoughtful greats #JulianLousada & #AndrewCooper www.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/ubertherapy

We stand at the tipping point in the ‘race to the bottom’ that UberTherapy represents. And it can only be by protecting our ability to really say what’s on our minds that we can work through whether something is actually better than nothing. www.survivingwork.org/surviving-wo...

In the era of #UberTherapy is a digital something better than a clinical nothing? This weeks blog about ChatGPT therapy www.survivingwork.org/surviving-wo... @brisunipress.bsky.social

🚨 GLOBAL ALERT! This #BlackFriday, thousands from Asia to the Americas to Europe are striking and mobilizing to #MakeAmazonPay and expose Amazon’s abuses against workers, our planet and our democracy. 📢Don’t watch from the sidelines. ✊ Act now. Join Us! #MakeAmazonPay

🚨German services union ver.di said around 3,000 workers were expected to participate at Amazon warehouses in Bad Hersfeld, Dortmund, Frankenthal, Graben, Koblenz, Moenchengladbach, Rheinberg, Werne, and Winsen via @reuters.com #MakeAmazonPay

✊ Today workers across Europe are taking action against Amazon. ❌ Amazon exploits its workers ❌ Has close ties with the Israeli military ❌ Is a monopolist As the company is under intense scrutiny, it has ramped up its lobby power in the EU 🧵 #MakeAmazonPay corporateeurope.org/en/2025/11/w...

🇦🇺 Australian parliamentarians are joining workers and unions to send a clear message to Amazon: enough is enough. It’s time to #MakeAmazonPay.

@rbreich.bsky.social also believes we should #MakeAmazonPay.

As you're busy busy on Black Friday make sure to #MakeAmazonPay

In UberTherapy I use #RobertMoneyKyrle's 'facts of life' to measure the consequences of uberization that denies the insecurity of needing others who do not mirror us in relationships that will at some point end. www.survivingwork.org/delinquents www.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/ubertherapy

Yay!! I couldn’t be there but Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring just won gold at the APA podcast awards!! Whole thing was crowdfunded by @the-citizens.bsky.social to highlight 5-year legal case to get an investigation into Russian interference in UK politics. Power to the people!

If you don't know the balm-like quality of #MargotWaddell and #SebastianKraemer's work then don't let this business-like cover fool you. Deep detailed framing of the history of the Tavistock tradition and how we use psychoanalytic ideas in our lives. www.survivingwork.org/delinquents

Your brain is beautiful and can handle it x

You might wonder what a book about introducing electronic monitoring systems in the trucking sector tells us about the future of therapy. #UberTherapy is a business model that has nothing to do with therapy. Another fantastic book by journalist @KarenLevy about platformization.

Are you ready for some UberTherapy? youtu.be/3nOZvtk-IHs?...

What's the cost of the convenience of UberTherapy? Listen to a discussion between grown ups about the future of digital therapy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwKd... @bylinetimes.bsky.social @thenerve.news

Listen to the story of how @psianofficial was sued by a digital therapy platform for $40m & the hunger strike @nuhwunion of #kaiserpermanente workers facing uberization. The UberTherapy Playlist www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwKd... @sarahmanavis.bsky.social @claudiahammond.bsky.social

I'm on a roll with books that provoke book-envy. This book by #RobertChapman I didn't read until after the final copyedit of UberTherapy. Probably a mercy because its a mind expanding read about #neurodiversity. www.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/ubertherapy

Actual news people. It's coming from the divine @naomiklein.bsky.social

It's coming. Actual journalism about the AI bubble from @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Time to start reading the news again people @thenerve.news Peter Thiel Gets Out of Dodge open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

It should come with a health warning for authors that you will experience that most awful disease of book-envy. But if your ego can stand the brilliance of #ChinaMills @deathsbywelfare you will learn important things.

Understanding UberTherapy: A conversation with #LindaMichaels @psianofficial #GarieConnel @NUHW.org & #ElizabethCotton @survivingwork.bsky.social youtu.be/kfgSVOxvv78?...

The therapy unicorn that is being offered here has a compelling business case. No more waiting lists, no more diagnosis or complex co-morbidity just consumers consuming therapy on an app. Understanding UberTherapy youtu.be/kfgSVOxvv78?... @bylinetimes.bsky.social @nuhw.org

It's not to say that AI and digital technologies are bad things, just that they come with a lot of financial and ideological baggage. www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2025/11/04/i... @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @thenerve.news @brisunipress.bsky.social

One of the most gracious minded thinkers in #psychotherapy is #RosieRizq who writes about #NHStalkingtherapies as a critical insider. For therapists to say what is on their mind about their work is surprisingly difficult. She made it possible for the rest of us. @PsiANorg @brisunipress.bsky.social

In AI mythology the Titans and Cassandras of tech are slugging it out in the ‘broligarchy’ heroically winning the battle for mental health on the basis that in this era of platform capitalism size always matters @brisunipress.bsky.social www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2025/11/04/i...