The Work
Eilene ZimmermanWriting about the importance of being human in an artificially intelligent world.
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This App Probably Won't Save Your Marriage
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I received an email pitch a few days ago from a PR company representing a new relationship app, Caveman to Casanova. The company’s press release describes it as a “wellness app deve...
Your Brain Thinks Uncertainty Will Kill You. It Won't.
Jesus, things feel hard right now. Not only because of all that’s happening in the country and the world but also because of the uncertainty about what is coming next.
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In my work as a therapist and a social worker, I’m...
Is Psychoanalysis the Mental Health Balm for Anxious Times?
Psychoanalysis has been making a comeback. Although we usually associate analysis with Sigmund Freud, many of his theories have been discredited (or significantly revised). Widespread debate that began back in the 1970s over the legitimacy...
Your Nervous System Doesn't Want Claude. It Wants a Human Being.
Photo: Mental Health Assocation
Last week someone I work with mentioned that her 22-year-old son, a newly minted U.S. Marine, was told he is being deployed to Iran. He is based where she lives, in San Diego, and the two of them usually go...
You Need a Human For This
AI chatbots have been implicated in the suicide deaths of two teenagers (Sewell Setzer in Feb. 2024 and Adam Raines in April 2025) and the psychiatric hospitalization of a man in his thirties. In each of these cases someone was in trouble p...
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Journalist | Ex-NYT columnist | Psychotherapist. Writing about the importance of being human in an artificially intelligent world.
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