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Thinking Allowed

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The Uberization of Therapy

The uberization of therapy is bound up with entertainment essentially. It's the way in which these automated therapeutics basically provide various quizzes or tips and particularly games there's a kind of gamification in many of these apps. So consequently users aren't going to really be surprised by ever discovering something antagonistic or disturbing deep within their self, partly because they're too busy playing games. The traumas in algorithmic technology now are never really traumatic you know psychic upheavals not so much trying to get to grips with a painful past as just simply casting it as a kind of disabling impediment to some radical self refashioning.

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