Psychoanalyst | @UCBerkeley | Led @HLuceFdn-funded tech & presence initiative | Ex-@LATimes | Emotion, spirituality, tech | 📩 stevenba@berkeley.edu
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The tremendous psychological energies that propel us toward digital life become trapped and frenzied, as they lose the grounding experience of contracting, unbuilding, turning away, and returning to within. doi.org/10.1080/07351690.202…
As I argue in a piece out today in Psychoanalytic Inquiry, the "dramatic reconfiguration of American religious geography is related to the dramatic reconfiguration of our lives through technology."
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Our digital lives involve the satisfaction of deep spiritual-attachment yearnings—& an exhausting relational entrapment. Platforms do all they can to keep us from looking away, even as inner life & the delicate ballet of intimate relationship demand it.
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In a new article out today in Psychoanalytic Inquiry, I reframe spiritual-but-not-religious styles from being socially anemic to involving, rather, the pursuit of deeply intimate engagement with others.
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Steven Barrie-Anthony, PhD, PsyD retweeted
.@joshuarothman @barrieanthony Your pieces meet an argument I've been developing as an ICU physician: what a system can describe, and what it means to remain with a person. I read your work together in this week's Standing Order.
Steven Barrie-Anthony, PhD, PsyD retweeted
AI therapy has arrived—and it’s time to reckon with what happens when we turn to therapists who cannot feel, Steven Barrie-Anthony argues: theatlantic.com/technology/2…
In working with my patients, human presence & mutual feeling are the crux of what works. AI therapy takes a radical step—removing the human therapist entirely. What's left is chatter, deadened silence, & missed pathways into feeling, I argue in a piece out today for @TheAtlantic:
AI therapy has arrived—and it’s time to reckon with what happens when we turn to therapists who cannot feel, Steven Barrie-Anthony argues: theatlantic.com/technology/2…
Our uptake of technology has been so rapid that we are losing the ability to notice how it feels to live this way. Occasionally, in therapeutic conversations, a patient can get in touch with these feelings. It often looks like grief.
— From my recent New York Times op-ed
To tackle the problems of technology we have to return to our emotional lives for their own sake, and not always leap to doing or changing or fixing.
Steven Barrie-Anthony, PhD, PsyD retweeted
#Religious and Cultural Implications of #Technology-Mediated Relationships in a Post-#Pandemic World
ILIA DELIO @CChristogenesis ; NOREEN HERZFELD @NoreenHerzfeld AND ROBERT NICASTRO
FOREWORD BY @barrieanthony
@nheller @devinps
@RLPGBooks #Book
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From my forward—this book demonstrates PTTP’s argument: that religion scholars have vital roles to play in helping us understand & navigate the impacts technologies are exerting in real time across all strata of human experience #TechAndPresence @HLuceFdn bit.ly/3XphNCW
Great new book supported by PTTP! Editors @iliadelio @NoreenHerzfeld R Nicastro, chapters from PTTP scholars such as @nheller, Amy Sue Bix, Beverley McGuire, Kevin Healey, @devinps, @barrieanthony. Excerpts to follow! #TechAndPresence @HLuceFdn @ShinIBS rowman.com/ISBN/978166693398…
Thanks @Occidental for including @DickAndersonOxy's great story about the Public Theologies of Technology and Presence research and journalism initiative in your roundup of top stories from 2022! @HLuceFdn #TechAndPresence oxy.edu/news/year-review-top…
#Therapists and #religion #scholars! Check out @psyainquiry's latest issue Daniel Goldin & I coedited: "How the #Sacred Emerges #Clinically: Transcendent Moments in #Psychoanalysis." Rich articles exploring the meetings of #psychotherapy & #spirituality! tandfonline.com/toc/hpsi20/4…
(1/2) As we note in the Epilogue, we were struck, in editing this fascinating set of papers, at how "this project of foregrounding the spiritual seems to be less about exploring rare and discrete emergences of the #sacred seen as important but peripheral to core analytic work...
"Theorizing the nones in terms of the sacralization of the intimate edge helps facilitate moving beyond defining [them] by absence–by what they are not and...allegedly lack–addressing them instead in their spiritual & psychological presence and complexity" doi.org/10.1080/07351690.202…
theorizing "nones’ spiritual lives psychoanalytically as...the sacralization of the intimate edge turns this critique on its head, & explores [how they] may be seen, not as rejecting intersubjective reality, but as sacralizing the radical experience of it"doi.org/10.1080/07351690.202…
