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Depth Psychology for the Digital Age:

Uncovering the Hidden Forces Behind Modern Life.

Dr Aaron Balick is a psychotherapist, author, and keynote speaker specialising in the psychology of technology, who uses his framework of Applied Psychodynamics to critically analyse AI, social media, and modern life helping leaders and organisations understand how people think, behave, and relate in a today's world.

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Dr Aaron Balick is a psychotherapist, author, and keynote speaker who developed the framework of Applied Psychodynamics— the study of the unconscious forces shaping human behaviour — to technology, AI, and modern culture. His perspective is grounded in something relatively rare in this conversation: more than two decades of clinical experience alongside proven academic credentials. He is a clinical psychotherapist, former Director of the MA in Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex, and the author of The Psychodynamics of Social Networking — the first book to apply psychoanalytic theory to social media. He also writes a monthly psychology column for GQ. Through his framework of Applied Psychodynamics, he helps leaders, organisations, and public audiences understand what is really happening beneath the surface of digital life — and what to do about it. He is based in London.

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