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Stories of UberTherapy

#SaveTheDate — 11 September, 6.30–7.30pm BST

A series of six recorded conversations hosted by Linda Michaels & Elizabeth Cotton, based around the six chapters of UberTherapy: The new business of mental health (Bristol University Press, 2025). Join a conversation between Jason Arday, Linda Michaels and Elizabeth Cotton to ask is a MuchBetter.Help possible?

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The Episodes

Six stories, six conversations, six chapters.

Chapter 1: Angerland artwork
Chapter One

Angerland

Two co-chairs of the American Psychoanalytic Association's Committee on AI on how to use our psychoanalytic minds to understand the future of therapy.

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Chapter 2: UberTherapy artwork
Chapter Two

UberTherapy

Authors of The AI Con explore the hype around AI.

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Chapter 3: Psychic Pilates artwork
Chapter Three

Psychic Pilates

Researchers and activists working on work-related suicide help us understand the weaponisation of work, welfare and mental health under austerity.

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Chapter 4: Do you have to marry a rich man to be a therapist? artwork
Chapter Four

Do you have to marry a rich man to be a therapist?

Lessons from organising Uber drivers and the Kaiser Permanente hunger strike.

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Chapter 5: Therapeutic Tinder artwork
Chapter Five

Therapeutic Tinder

Writers and activists on how to talk about money, love and care in a way that doesn't cause self-harm.

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Chapter 6: RealTherapy artwork
Chapter Six

RealTherapy™

Practitioners, teachers and writers thinking about how we keep doing the deep work.

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Meet the Speakers

Short introductions for now — fuller biographies to follow.

Chapter One · Angerland

Todd Essig & Amy Levy

Two co-chairs of the American Psychoanalytic Association's Committee on AI on how to use our psychoanalytic minds to understand the future of therapy.

Chapter Two · UberTherapy

Alex Hanna & Emily Bender

Authors of The AI Con explore the hype around AI.

Chapter Three · Psychic Pilates

China Mills, Emily Yue & Sarah Waters

Researchers and activists working on work-related suicide help us understand the weaponisation of work, welfare and mental health under austerity.

Chapter Four · Do you have to marry a rich man to be a therapist?

James Farrar & Hilda Poulson

Lessons from organising Uber drivers and the Kaiser Permanente hunger strike.

Chapter Five · Therapeutic Tinder

Jumanah Younis & Julia Macintosh

Writers and activists on how to talk about money, love and care in a way that doesn't cause self-harm.

Chapter Six · RealTherapy™

Jon Allen & Elizabeth Lunbeck

Practitioners, teachers and writers thinking about how we keep doing the deep work.


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