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UberTherapy : the new business of mental health / Elizabeth Cotton.
De Gruyter Bristol University Press/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2025 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cotton, Elizabeth (Psychotherapist), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mental health services.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 133 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- 'UberTherapy' is the essential guide to the rise of digital therapy for anyone working in, researching or using mental health services. This timely book explores the emerging uberization of therapy through algorithmic control, datafication of despair and attrition by design.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- UberTherapy The New Business of Mental Health
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Prologue
- Notes
- 1 Angerland
- Welcome to Angerland
- Hi Sigmund ™
- The therapeutic Wild West
- Size matters
- The datafication of despair
- Sabor a Mierda
- Defences against thinking
- 2 UberTherapy
- The architecture of UberTherapy
- It's always all about sex
- UberTherapists
- Attrition by design
- Self-regulation
- 3 Psychic Pilates
- The IAPT juggernaut
- Hello from the therapy factory
- SilverLinings
- Cheer up love
- Is something better than nothing?
- 4 Do You Have to Marry a Rich Man to Be a Therapist?
- In Versailles
- The Grand Commun
- Wage theft and predatory pricing
- Professional cannibalism
- Guillotine logic
- 5 Therapeutic Tinder
- Don't get defensive
- Look. At. Me.
- Retail therapy
- MILF therapy
- Revenge therapy
- Harder than you think is a beautiful thing
- 6 RealTherapy ™
- Dirty little ideological secrets
- Lived experience
- Social intentions
- The intention of free association
- Intentional free association
- The intention to think
- Intentional thinking
- The intention to face reality
- Intentional realism
- The intention of AI-MHS
- Intentional AI-MHS
- MuchBetterHelp
- Stop dancing for daddy
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-5292-3085-3
- OCLC:
- 1543171816
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