UberTherapy and the Enshittification of our Relational Lives: Part 2 of our Interview with Elizabeth Cotton Elizabeth Cotton traces how digital therapy can block the very thing people come for: a stable, human relationship that can hold fear, dependency, and ambivalence.

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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

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UberTherapy and the Enshittification of our Relational Lives: Part 1 of our Interview with Elizabeth Cotton With UberTherapy, Elizabeth Cotton follows the gig-economy playbook into psychotherapy, where platforms lower costs by depressing wages and standardizing treatment.

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.

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UberTherapy and the Enshittification of our Relational Lives: Part 1 of our Interview with Elizabeth Cotton With UberTherapy, Elizabeth Cotton follows the gig-economy playbook into psychotherapy, where platforms lower costs by depressing wages and standardizing treatment.

UberTherapy and the Enshittification of our Relational Lives: Part 1 of our Interview with @survivingwork.bsky.social and @justinkarterphd @mad-in-america.bsky.social
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@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.

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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

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Most People Want Therapy That Gets to the Root, but Are They Getting It? A new national study shows that while the public favors depth-oriented therapy, most are not receiving it—and cost, access, and tech platforms may be to blame.

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

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Who do you think you are?
A story about #UberTherapy

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Drivers in UK and Europe set to sue Uber for unfair pay set by algorithm Drivers in UK and Europe set to sue Uber for unfair pay set by algorithm

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.

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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.

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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
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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
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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

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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
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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.
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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

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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.
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In the era of #UberTherapy is a digital something better than a clinical nothing?

This weeks blog about ChatGPT therapy

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