In the writing of UberTherapy I attempted to decolonize my theoretical framing by buying & then actually reading the next generation of critical mental health writing. This book gave me hope that the next generation of thinkers are coming. Do yourself a favour buy it & then read it @micha_frazer

In the writing of UberTherapy I attempted to decolonize my theoretical framing by buying & then actually reading the next generation of critical mental health writing. This book gave me hope that the next generation of thinkers are coming. Do yourself a favour buy it & then read it @micha_frazer

At the @adisorder4everyone #ad4efestival25 today reminded that other people are not a waste of time. Stepping back from the dystopian cliff edge where in UberTherapy consumer power will determine the good, bad & ugly of algorithmic harms www.youtube.com/shorts/gXYrp... @bristoluniversitypress

If we’re not able to be attentive in therapy because we’re busy getting people off the books we are projecting our anxieties into our clients www.youtube.com/shorts/TKajt... UberTherapy: The new business of mental health, www.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/ubertherapy @brisunipress.bsky.social

We’re not stupid people but there is an attack on our thinking about what is happening in digital therapy. www.youtube.com/shorts/EXYQ_... Podcast conversation with Two Lost Souls about UberTherapy twolostsouls.co.uk/listen

This book by the journalist @danamattioli.bsky.social about the e-commerce tsunami of Amazon arrived late in the drafting of #UberTherapy offering a roadmap for what happens when therapy becomes a sector of e-commerce and retail therapy. www.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/ubertherapy

A series of posts about some of the important books behind mine, UberTherapy published this week by @bristoluniversitypress. First by US psychotherapists including Linda Michaels @psianofficial. If you're a UK therapist this is the first step in understanding the uberization. #mentalhealth #therapy

Are you ready for some UberTherapy @bylinetimes.bsky.social? UberTherapy: The New Business of Mental Health from @brisunipress.bsky.social Video summary here www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PaE...

A thing of real usefulness - journalists toolbox around digital security. Something useful for trade unionists and UberTherapists alike. #UberTherapy

Are you ready for some UberTherapy? Introduction to UberTherapy: The new business of mental health youtu.be/4PaE96eBdL8?... @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @thenerve.news @askpippa.bsky.social

"An important and engaging contribution that critically evaluates the commercialization of #MentalHealth and how emotional management & #SelfHelp are generating new problems in our personal & working lives." Miguel Martínez Lucio, University of Manchester

Trade unions win stronger voice in multinational companies. @etuc-ces.bsky.social welcomes adoption of revised EWC Directive and calls on all Member States to swiftly transpose the directive into national law www.etuc.org/en/pressrele...

Are you ready for some UberTherapy? The story of UberTherapy: The New Business of Mental Health is here youtu.be/4PaE96eBdL8?... UberTherapy is published today by @bristoluniversitypress @brisunipress.bsky.social

...and that's a wrap for week 1 of our strike. Thanks to all the students and colleagues who came to the pickets to support us, we will see you all next week!

You. Are. The. Best. @leicesterucu.bsky.social

Day 4: chalk signs, an amazing teach out, and more picket dogs. When we fight, we don't fight alone!

Day 3: the rain did not stop us!

Day 3: more placards and a percussion workshop!

Is this happening to you because you’re too outspoken? Other people are not a waste of time - Part Three www.survivingwork.org/surviving-wo... @survivingwk @ubertherapy

Other people are not a waste of time part 2. Whatever happened to the Cotswolds? How my town became the wealth management centre of the UK and home to Beyonce. This week's blog www.survivingwork.org/surviving-wo...

It doesn’t take a behavioural economist to see how with off-the-shelf weight loss drugs we got hooked on effortless transformation. The gateway drug for dynamic pricing and blurring of clinical & advertising standards. What could possibly go wrong? www.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/ubertherapy

Rather than offering a template for bunker building, my new book UberTherapy: The New Business of Mental Health argues for the necessity of relating to others as a response to the platformization of care. That other people are not a waste of time Full blog here www.survivingwork.org

“I have finally formulated the elevator pitch for UberTherapy ‘The Datafication of Despair:The extraction industry that games reality & offers magic solutions to the problems you never had’ I am supposed to feel happier than this.” waterstones.com/campaign/jul... SUMMER25 25% off RRP #Wpreorder

“I have finally formulated the elevator pitch for UberTherapy ‘The Datafication of Despair:The extraction industry that games reality & offers magic solutions to the problems you never had’ I am supposed to feel happier than this.” waterstones.com/campaign/jul... SUMMER25 25% off RRP #Wpreorder

"A powerful, well-informed and deeply personal treatise which deepens our understanding of therapy industry and 'the new business of mental health'. An exceptional intervention in exceptionally challenging times." Jason Arday, University of Cambridge Pre-order UberTherapy @Waterstones here

🚨 25% OFF PRE-ORDERS 🚨 From 28 - 31 July, get 25% off 'UberTherapy' with code SUMMER25 at checkout. Exclusively on the #Waterstones website & app. #WPreorder A guide to the rise of digital therapy for anyone working in or researching #MentalHealth.

This week Waterstones will be offering a pre-order offer for UberTherapy: The new business of mental health. Click here waterstones.com/campaign/jul... and enter SUMMER25 to receive 25% off RRP. #WPreorder @Waterstones @BrisUniPress

"I have finally formulated the elevator pitch for UberTherapy – ‘The Datafication of Despair: The extraction industry that games reality and offers magic solutions to the problems you never had’. I am supposed to feel happier than this." @Waterstones waterstones.com/campaign/jul... SUMMER25

my latest essay for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/genera...

Rebecca from the FTN will be speaking at this event on Saturday - we're looking forward to it and hope to see some of you there! #CounsellorsTogether #TherapistSky

National Counsellors Day 28 June. From wage theft to food banks - confronting therapist exploitation. Book you virtual ticket here onlinevents.co.uk/event/audaci...

National Counsellors Day 28 June. What the Kaiser Permanente strike teaches us about UberTherapy's future. Book you virtual ticket here onlinevents.co.uk/event/audaci...

National Counsellors Day 28 June. Opposing the politics of Work-as- medicine. Book you virtual ticket here onlinevents.co.uk/event/audaci...

Audacious Solidarity at National Counsellors Day 28 June. Go on. You want some. Programme here issuu.com/onlinevents/...

Wildfires devastate communities. UC Berkeley is helping preserve local government research, policy, & action on wildfire management on the Internet Archive. Learn more ➡️ igs.berkeley.edu/news/califor... 🧵

Audacious Solidarity: Courage, Community & Workplace Justice for Therapists National Counsellors Day June 28 @ 09:45 - 13:00 Online: Book your place here lnkd.in/epytMrcP

Really good discussion between @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and @lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social about State Capture. The three elements that State Captors want - control of Parliament, Public Procurement and the Press. open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Andries Baart and Guus Timmerman explore how bureaucratic systems in modern care often conflict with the relational practices essential to compassionate support in this policy briefing: buff.ly/zzzeqQA

"The UK is now trapped in a pincer movement: on one flank, tech-giant lobbying seeks to erode the state’s capacity to regulate; on the other, these same corporations are inching ever deeper into essential public services."

As @goodlawproject.org says "fact that - on top of everything else - Palantir's NHS offer is just not very good does make one wonder about source of Wes Streeting's enthusiasm for it. And why hapless Starmer was dragged along to endorse them by Mandelson" Palantir said onboarding trusts takes time

Palantir has £400M+ in UK gov contracts - it's also got friends in high places here - It's hired ex ministers + civil servants - when Starmer went to DC in Feb he visited Palantir's office -w/Peter Mandelson, whose lobbying firm has repped...Palantir democracyforsale.substack.com/p/conservati...

KPMG was even given an £8M contract to "promote the adoption" of Palantir’s software across the NHS. But hospitals have complained about the functionality of Palantir's software and experts say it does not "exceed the capability and application" of software hospitals already use.

But nearly 18 months after Palantir's £330m NHS contract was signed, Democracy for Sale found many English NHS hospitals have an unexpected objection about Palantir - its software simply isn’t good enough Less than 1/3rd of England’s 215 hospital trusts are using Palantir’s Federated Data Platform

Palantir's NHS data contract was *very* controversial - the notoriously secretive firm builds spy tech Just last week, exPalantir staff accused the firm of breaching its own ethical standards by helping the Trump administration track immigrants for illegal deportations. www.npr.org/2025/05/05/n...

🔴 Remember the £330million contract given to Trump donor Peter Thiel's firm Palantir to build an NHS data platform? Well we've found out that most English hospitals aren't using it - because it's not very good Scoop on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/palantirs-...

The second plenary begins at 5.15pm, when @aaronwinter.bsky.social will talk on ‘What can sociology say about right-wing extremism and the mainstreaming of racism and the far right?’ Lecture Theatre B #britsoc25

Mon entretien avec @cecilesimmons.bsky.social pour la sortie de son dernier livre (abonné.e.s) : mariececilenaves.com/2025/04/la-h... @brisunipress.bsky.social

“Public sociology is a form of education: speaking out beyond the university also performs an educative function.” Just before he died, Michael Burawoy talked to @michaelacbenson.bsky.social about his career-defining evangelism for public – or, alternatively, a living – sociology. buff.ly/6WD2fzQ

Our MedSoc 2025 call for abstracts is now open. Visit www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b... to find out more and submit your abstract. Closing date, 2nd May. We look forward to receiving your abstracts!

What's the best sentence in sociology? #britsoc2025