Other people are not a waste of time (in India)
In Angerland its useful to be reminded that other people are not a waste of time. It’s always a risk meeting your heroes but it turns out that Farhad Dalal delivers. Farhad is the author of the life changing book The CBT Tsunami, one of the first and most important formulations of the cognitive and behavioural model underpinning UberTherapy. Since I need more friends, I conducted essentially a spam campaign to get him to meet me and several conversations later I am happy to report that Farhad is the real deal. He’s also a very useful person as a founder of Group Analysis India spending much of his time raising the necessary funding to keep the show on the road of developing the next generation of group minded therapists.
To raise funding for this programme they organise regular online lectures and the next one is on the 21st November where I will be talking about my book UberTherapy and what lies ahead. Unlike the financial model of UberTherapy, all monies raised through these lectures are treated as donations and handed over to the registered charity, Group Analysis India (Charity Number: 1192636)
You won’t be gamed or have your biometric data sold on to the big data daddy in the sky, instead you’ll be encouraged to join a group of like minded people to remember how very much other people are not a waste of time.
Register here.
Saturday Nov 21 2026 1-3pm (UK)
1 pm to 1.05 Student
1.05 to 2.00 pm - Elizabeth Cotton
2.00 to 2.30 Small Group discussion
2.30pm to 3 pm - Whole group discussion
Fee: £20 + optional donation
Elizabeth Cotton will talk about the financial and tech landscape behind digital and AI therapy and ask how we might navigate the new business model of UberTherapy. Based on her book UberTherapy (Bristol University Press, 2025) and the podcast series Stories of UberTherapy, recorded in partnership with Linda Michaels from the Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN), she will talk about the process of getting out of Angerland and understanding what lies ahead in the world of online therapy platforms, automation and datafication of care and the emergence of dynamic pricing and pay systems. She will invite participants to think collectively about how can we talk about money in our professional and personal lives in a way that helps to build a muchbetter.help.
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. She founded Surviving Work which explores whether it's possible to do that.
Books:
Surviving Work in Healthcare: Helpful stuff for people on the frontline. (Taylor and Francis 2017)
UberTherapy: The new business of mental health (Bristol University Press 2025).
If you’re an UberTherapist do this:
Listen to our podcast series Stories of UberTherapy here
Join our network of UberTherapists here
Read UberTherapy: The New Business of Mental Health here
Follow the story of MuchBetter.Help here