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UberTherapy : The New Business of Mental Health.

De Gruyter Bristol University Press/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2025 Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Cotton, Elizabeth.
Language:
English
Genre:
Electronic books.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (0 pages)
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:
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ISBN:
1-5292-3085-3
OCLC:
1543171816

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