Tag: Psychotherapy
Dörte Bemme , September 16th, 2021
We are closing our series with a podcast that turns to the absences and missing voices emerging alongside Digital Psy; the lifeworlds&…

Alexa Hagerty , September 13th, 2021
Fritz Kahn, Der Mensch als Industriepalast, 1926. Detail. Image in public domain Introduction: surveil, classify and predict by Alexa Hagerty and Livia Garofalo The works distilled by the…

Rebecca J. Lester , June 23rd, 2021
“Hello? Hello? Can you hear me?” “I can, but your head is cut off. I just see your neck. Can you hear me?” “Yeah, yeah, I hear you. &nb…

Claudia Lang , April 13th, 2021
Mounica Tata, Doodleodrama. “How are you today?” Wysa starts the conversation. “Not well,” I reply. “Sounds like today didn’t go well. I’m here for you. Describe how you’re…

Priscilla Song , March 15th, 2021
This book forum brings together eight anthropologists to discuss Li Zhang’s Anxious China: Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy (University of California Press 2020). Zhang examine…

Manuel Capella , December 15th, 2020
Pavel Égüez, “Cuarentena (Quarantine)” (2020), Oil paint on cardboard. In March 2020, the health and funerary system collapsed in Guayaquil. The largest city in Ecuador was one of…
Hannah Zeavin , November 2nd, 2020
With Covid-19 showing no sign of abating, mental health care (from ongoing therapy to helplines) continues to be an important site of treatment for many Americans. While traditional…

Dörte Bemme , August 28th, 2020
Laurie Frick, “Mood + Quantify” (2011-13), Lasercut paper, wood, blocks, laminate. Covid-19 and the associated social distancing orders have normalized and accelerated the use of digi…
Rose Deller , November 1st, 2018
In Shock Therapy: Psychology, Precarity and Well-Being in Postsocialist Russia, Thomas Matza offers an ethnographic account that explores the rise of psychotherapy in post-socialist Russia. Through in…
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Álvaro Jiménez Molina , May 21st, 2018
This article describes the main discussions and contributions of the first workshop of the International Research Network on Disruptive Behaviours. The workshop was held at the “Centre for…