Technology and the Mind

In this episode, Dr. Roald discusses the importance of art and aesthetic experience and its relationship to freedom. We draw connections to technology and its impact on our experience of art and freedom as well as connections to psychoanalysis.

In this episode Colleen Cotter, user experience researcher and designer discusses her work on projects of social value and in particular on technology products that support social good including neurodevelopment and that address neurodegenerative disease. She discusses incentives that motivate design and processes that are more beneficial to us all.

In this episode, Dr. Michelle Marzullo, chair of the Department of Critical Sexuality Studies at CIIS discusses her work and the importance of technology in sexuality studies. She provides a queer, intersectional and critical lens and shares a few projects she and her students are working on at the intersection of sexuality studies and technology.

In this episode Dr. Linda Michaels, Chair and Co-Founder of the Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAn) discusses grassroots efforts to provide public information and advocacy for therapies of depth, insight and relationship. She discusses the role of marketing as a major source of information to the public about treatment options for mental health. Further she emphasizes that psychoanalysts and psychodynamically-oriented clinicians should advocate and educate the public, particularly while there are significant strategic interests in among tech apps, investors and insurance companies in shaping the marketplace for consumers.

Dr. Stein discusses his work consulting with executives and teams as a psychodynamic strategy consultant. He discusses the impact psychoanalysis can have on people and dynamics between people within business contexts. He centers decision making and caring in his work and muses about AI and the future from the perspective of the C-suite advisor role. His work is ultimately about how psychodynamic strategy consulting can be used as an intervention for social good and business success at scale. Introduction 2:58 — Professional Trajectory + Origin Story 7:33 — From Practice to Deployment 8:10 — Call to Retire Idea of Applied Psychoanalysis 11:25 — Considering the Social in Working with Leaders 13:35 — Differences Between Clinical Psychoanalysis, Conventional Consulting, & Psychodynamic Consulting 18:03 — Value + Benefits of a Psychoanalytic Approach with Executives and Teams: Creating Optionality 23:12 — Scaling Expectations + Meeting Goals 25:09 — Organizations as Human Ecosystems 26:03 — Approaching Varieties of Problems + Issues Across an Array of Practice Areas 27:47 — The Nodal Axis in Multiple Domains: Focused Delivery of Expertise in Decision-Making 29:14 — Human Architecture + Psycho-Social Dimensions in Cybersecurity 31:38 — Multidisciplinary Collaborations in Fraud Matters 33:11 — Psychoanalysis as a Technology to Solve Complicated Problems: Overcoming Challenges + Leveraging Value 35:30 — Building Solutions + Mitigating Risks in Socially Responsible + Commercially Profitable Technologies 40:05 — What Will the Future Hold? Barriers + Upsides to Bringing Psychological Expertise into the Technology Space at Scale 44:33 — AI: Risks, Benefits, Potentials 46:15 — A Critical Assessment of AI as a Project to Replicate + Computerize Human Thought 50:10 — Countering the Deficiency of Care in Developing Technological Applications & Services: Balancing the Psychological + Philosophical 52:25 — More on AI: Implicit Disdain for Humanity as a Driving Force 55:32 — Adverse Consequences of Divestiture of Human Connection 58:02 — How to Course-Correct: Technology Issues are Fundamentally Human not Technological 1:00 — The Value of Care: Shared Moral Responsibilities for Harms & Benefits 1:02:42 — Concluding Remarks + Calls to Action You can find Dr. Stein at: Dolus Advisors: www.dolusadvisors.com/ LinkedIn (individual): www.linkedin.com/in/alexandersteinphd/ LinkedIn (company): https://www.linkedin.com/company/dolus-advisors/ Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexanderstein/#1c06a3246220 The Dolus Advisors Briefing (a periodic newsletter providing analysis, counsel, and firm updates): https://www.dolusadvisors.com/subscribe + https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/7025507656970694656/?displayConfirmation=true

Dr. Paul Slovic, decision scientist and accomplished academic and researcher discusses human decision making, judgements, and risk with an emphasis on the role of feelings as applied to genocide, war, smoking, advertising, addiction and nuclear arms.

This the a short trailer describing the focus of season 2 of Technology and the Mind. In this season we broaden our discussions by interviewing leaders in the tech sector, techno ethicists, business consultants, venture capitalists, politicians, philosophers and academics in dialogue with psychoanalysts about consumer tech products and services and the impacts these may have on our minds, relationships and society. We will consider the unconscious dynamics we may be participating in individually and socially via technology and whether or not these are important to analyze.

Dr. Jeremy Soh discusses creativity and dreams - what they are, why we should care about them and how technology may impact our capacity to be creative and to dream.

Dr. Patricia Gherovici discusses perversion, sexuality and porn. She discusses the use of technology and muses about its impact on our ability to dream and imagine.

Dr. Todd Essig discusses the differences between teleanalysis and traditional in person psychoanalysis and how this may be useful in understanding tech-mediated relating outside of the consulting relationship.

Dr. Tom Wooldridge discusses narcissism and how consumer technology can influence our sensitivities to narcissistic injury in both positive and negative ways. He offer several interesting examples of the use of technology in clinical cases.

An interview with Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst Dr. Catherine Mallouh about negative capability, what it is, why it is important and how it is developed. Dr. Mallouh will also consider how consumer technology may impact the development and maintenance of negative capability and creativity.