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Depth Psychology in the Digital Age

Aaron Balick

Meditations on mind and machine: a contemporary psychoanalytic perspective. Using my own framework of "applied psychodynamics", I explore how tech, AI, and culture shape the human mind.

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    Dr. Aaron Balick is a leading voice on the intersection between tech, culture, and contemporary psychoanalysis. Psychotherapist, Consultant, Psych writer at GQ, Keynote speaker, and Author of The Psychodynamics of Social Networking

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