UberTherapy Book Launch
UberTherapy: The New Business of Mental Health
26 June 6.30-8pm Onlinevents
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This event opens up a discussion about the ‘uberization’ of therapeutic practice, the business models behind it and the emerging political fault lines for therapists. Using as its starting point Elizabeth Cotton’s new book UberTherapy: The New Business of Mental Health (Bristol University Press, 2025), the three discussants – Andrew Samuels, Linda Michaels and Elizabeth Cotton – will together explore the narratives and the politics of digital therapy and the collective challenges that lie ahead for therapeutic work in the face of widespread platformization. The launch event will challenge participants to raise their consciousness and consider a defence of deep work and the what-next in the story of UberTherapy.
Andrew Samuels Andrew Samuels is a relational Jungian psychoanalyst, professor, activist and political consultant (including to the National Health Service). He founded or co-founded many organisations within the 'psy' field, including Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility, Psychotherapy and Counselling Union, Analysis and Activism, International Association for Jungian Studies, and the Confederation for Analytical Psychology. Elected Chair of the UK Council for Psychotherapy 2009-2012, and has worked as Consultant for Routledge's Jung List since 1984. His many books have been translated into up to 21 languages. These include Jung and the Post-Jungians (1985), The Plural Psyche (1989), The Political Psyche 1993), Politics on the Couch (2001), Persons, Passions, Psychotherapy, Politics (2015), and A New Therapy for Politics? (2018). His most recent book (2025) is published: Reflecting Critically on the Political Psyche: Therapy, Testament and Trouble in Psychoanalysis and Jungian Analysis. A selection of video lectures and 'rants' is available on www.andrewsamuels.com
Linda Michaels, PsyD, MBA is a psychologist with a private practice in Chicago. She is Chair and Co-Founder of the Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN), a grassroots nonprofit organization that advocates for improved access and awareness of psychotherapy in the US. She is the author and editor of the book Advancing Psychotherapy for the Next Generation, an important book to read about what lies ahead for the UK therapy sector. In 2025 PsiAN produced an important report looking at the business model behind Practice Management Companies providing platforms for therapists to use in their work The Business of Psychotherapy: Practice Management Companies.
Elizabeth Cotton is a writer and educator in the field of industrial relations and mental health and is Associate Professor for Responsible Business at the University of Leicester. She has trained and worked as a psychotherapist in the UK’s NHS and has had lots of therapy. She comes from a trade union background, working as head of education for a global union federation in the extractive industries and founded Surviving Work which explores whether it’s possible to do that including her book Surviving Work in Healthcare: Helpful stuff for people on the frontline. Her book UberTherapy: The new business of mental health is published by Bristol University Press in 2025.
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