Essays and reflections at the intersection of psychoanalytic thought, artificial intelligence, and the lived experience of being human in a digital world.
ExploreThinking aloud about psychoanalytic theory, the promises and perils of AI in mental health, and what it means to understand another human being.
On AI-mediated dialogue, the capacity to hold another mind in mind, and what GPT-4 taught me about the limits of empathy without embodiment.
What happens when the clinician is also the margin? On the countertransference nobody trained you for, and the politics the consulting room pretends don't exist.
Winnicott never imagined a transitional object that talks back. What happens to internal working models when the "other" is a language model?
Critical perspectives on mental health — from the colonial wounds Fanon diagnosed to the institutional power Foucault dissected. What remains for the clinician who reads both?
The domains that shape this project — each one a lens, each one incomplete without the others.
Object relations, mentalization, the unconscious as a living archive. From Freud's Interpretation to Bion's container, the tradition that insists on depth.
What happens when machine learning meets the talking cure? Investigating AI-mediated therapeutic interactions, their possibilities and their blind spots.
Clinical work with communities that mainstream psychology often fails — LGBTQ+ individuals, people living with HIV, Romani communities. Culturally-sensitive, politically aware practice.
Fanon, Foucault, and the question of power in the consulting room. How do structures of domination enter the therapeutic relationship?
What counts as knowledge in clinical psychology? Navigating the tensions between evidence-based practice and the wisdom of the consulting room.
Translating psychoanalytic texts across languages. What is lost and found when the psyche speaks across linguistic and cultural borders?
Psyche Solutions is a space for thinking at the intersection of psychoanalytic thought, technology, and critical inquiry. It exists because these conversations — about what AI can and cannot understand about the human mind, about the politics of the consulting room, about whether depth psychology can survive the age of algorithms — deserve a home outside the academy.
The essays published here are not clinical advice. They are attempts to think carefully about questions that matter: What does it mean to understand another person? Can a machine participate in that process? What happens to the psyche in a world that optimizes for everything except depth?
This project is rooted in the psychodynamic tradition but refuses to stay comfortably within it. It draws on critical theory, philosophy of science, and the lived experience of working with communities at the margins — because the psyche does not exist in a vacuum, and neither should the thinking about it.
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