Episode 1 Angerland
Amy “I think part of what makes this treacherous is that we are not fans of being human. You know it’s not like ‘oh being human is so great we have to hold onto this’. It’s hard to be human.”
Todd “ Yeah, humans suck.”
Elizabeth “ I’m going to take that clip out with Todd Essig just going ‘Humans suck!!!”. You’ll go viral.
Todd “ Freud threw in the death instinct for a reason, we treat each other horribly. It’s a world of violence and trauma, starvation and inequities so yes, Amy, I agree with you. Humans suck.”
Amy “I’m not saying humans suck, I love humans but our existence is fraught and we want to escape it. We want help and we’re trying to create a solution to the problems of existence and that involves a kind of split. Let’s have humanoid companions.”
Stories of UberTherapy is a series of six recorded conversations with therapists, social justice activists, trade unionists and progressive tech campaigners to ask if a MuchBetter.Help is possible.
In Episode 1 Angerland Todd Essig (psychoanalyst) & Amy Levy (psychoanalyst), 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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Todd Essig, Ph.D. is Faculty and Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at the William Alanson White Institute, Faculty at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis, inaugural member of Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN) Advisory Board, and Distinguished Fellow of the NYS Psychological Association (NYSPA). Widely known as a pioneer in the innovative uses of mental health technologies, he publishes and lectures widely. He’s founder and chair of the American Psychoanalytic Association’s (APsA) Commission on Artificial Intelligence (CAI) and a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) sub-committee on artificial intelligence. Previously, he was a member of the IPA’s task force on telesessions and psychoanalytic education where he co-authored the “TF2 Report” used as the basis for IPA educational policy. During the pandemic he co-chaired APsA’s Covid-19 Advisory Team where he was awarded Distinguished Service awards from APsA and NYSPA. For 10 years, until the pandemic hit, he wrote "Managing Mental Wealth" for Forbes. Dr. Essig maintains a private practice in New York where he treats individuals and couples.
Dr. Amy Levy is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. She chairs the American Psychoanalytic Association’s (APsA) Commission on Artificial Intelligence (CAI), serves on the subcommittee “Artificial Intelligence” for the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) committee, “Psychoanalysis and Technology,” serves on the editorial board of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, and she is Editor of the Substack series, "AI in My Mind,"for The Psychoanalytic Quarterly. She is the author of the book, The New Other: Alien Intelligence and the Innovation Drive. Dr. Levy lectures internationally on the intersection of psychoanalysis and artificial intelligence and maintains a private practice in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
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