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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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 Elizabeth Cotton www.madinamerica.com/2026/02/uber...

Forum 2029 Launch – 'The challenge ahead: Britain from 2026 to 2029' Where are we headed? Is a Reform government inevitable? With the 2029 election approaching ever faster, the far right remains a serious threat. While the current government has made progress, deeper ...

I'm attending a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social event: Forum 2029 Launch – 'The challenge ahead: Britain from 2026 to 2029'. RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/forum...

The politics of mental health is a practice. It is what we do every day in the everyday. Julia Macintosh @UnPsychology & the newly formed centreformadculture.uk

Mad culture in the UK: future directions?
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This you should read if you have any skin in the therapy game. Edited with the searing and yet humane touch of Clare Slaney. She bequeethed me my political north star entitled 'Stop Dancing For Daddy', a phrase I use usefully every single day.

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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

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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Join us at the online launch of Asylum Magazine’s special issue on AI and mental health on 19th December 2025 6-7pm.
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Who do you think you are?
A story about #UberTherapy

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#WomenVisibilityWeek #FairnessINtheFeed #wearthepants

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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#MichaelRustin’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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Join us at the online launch of Asylum Magazine’s special issue on AI and mental health on 19th December 2025 6-7pm.

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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 and #AndrewCooper

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This is the emerging fault line of regulating digital therapy. #JoBraidwood co-founder of #YaraAI suspends subscription to AI mental health service due to safety concerns
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UberTherapy: The new business of mental health
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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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Oh you.

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

This weeks blog about ChatGPT therapy

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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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In UberTherapy I use #RobertMoneyKyrle's 'facts of life' to measure what are the real consequences of uberization that denies the fundamental insecurity of needing others, who do not mirror us, in relationships that will at some point end.
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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.

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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