Technology and the Mind

Technology and the Mind

Technology and the Mind is a podcast dedicated to exploring contemporary psychoanalytic ideas applied to consumer technology use cases. Each month we interview a seasoned practicing psychoanalyst about how they understand the impact of technology on our minds, our relationships and on society and how they predict we might impact the future of technology - all from the perspective of contemporary psychoanalysis.

Episodes

Where are we now and where might we go from here with Dr. Nicolle Zapien

October 23, 2025
Dr. Nicolle Zapien reviews all of the previous episodes of Technology and the Mind and muses about the future of psychoanalysis, technology and advocacy efforts as this relates to AI and the effects of technology products and services on us all. This is the last episode of the season.
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Phenomenology, aesthetics and technology with Dr. Tone Roald

April 15, 2025 • 45 mins
In this episode, Dr. Roald discusses the importance of art and aesthetic experience and its relationship to freedom. We draw connections to technology and its impact on our experience of art and freedom as well as connections to psychoanalysis.
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Teleanalysis, Telehealth and Teletraining with Dr. Leora Trub

February 26, 2025 • 53 mins
In this episode Dr. Trub discusses her research and experience training psychologists prior, during and after to COVID-19. She calls for more thinking about teleanalysis and teletraining and particularly questions about the analytic frame. In this episode we muse about the generational impact of tech use on schemata for thinking and on the future of our profession against the backdrop of AI and therapy apps. ...
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User Experience Design Research and technology used to help with neurodevelopment

November 27, 2024 • 36 mins
In this episode Colleen Cotter, user experience researcher and designer discusses her work on projects of social value and in particular on technology products that support social good including neurodevelopment and that address neurodegenerative disease. She discusses incentives that motivate design and processes that are more beneficial to us all.
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AI and the Unconscious: The Importance of Psychoanalysis in Tech Development with Dr. Luca Possati

October 29, 2024 • 58 mins
Dr. Possati describes he work at the intersection of philosophy, psychoanalysis and AI. He discusses the mutual influence of tech on humans and vice versa, the importance of unconscious processes and interdisciplinary collaboration across fields to produce ethical AI systems.
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Critical Sexuality Studies and SexTech with Dr. Michelle Marzullo

July 4, 2024 • 58 mins
In this episode, Dr. Michelle Marzullo, chair of the Department of Critical Sexuality Studies at CIIS discusses her work and the importance of technology in sexuality studies. She provides a queer, intersectional and critical lens and shares a few projects she and her students are working on at the intersection of sexuality studies and technology.
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Human Virtuality and Digital Life: Philosophical and Psychoanalytic Investigations

May 18, 2024 • 60 mins
In this episode long time friends and collaborators, Drs. Richard Frankel and Victor Krebs carry on a decade long conversation in person and in google docs resulting in the book, Human Virtuality and Digital Life, a delightful and rich discussion of the philosophical understandings of virtuality as well as implications for the psyche. Their discussions are far reaching and deep leveraging myths, critical thought, ...
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The Importance of Professional Advocacy for Mental Health Treatment Choice in the Times of Ubiquitous Technology

April 2, 2024 • 66 mins
In this episode Dr. Linda Michaels, Chair and Co-Founder of the Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAn) discusses grassroots efforts to provide public information and advocacy for therapies of depth, insight and relationship. She discusses the role of marketing as a major source of information to the public about treatment options for mental health. Further she emphasizes that psychoanalysts and psychodynamically-or...
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Are the Kids Alright? Motivations, Decisions and Values Embedded in Educational and Consumer Technologies

March 9, 2024 • 63 mins
In this episode Catherine Saldutti, founder of EduChange, an innovative EdTech firm that is re-engineering formal secondary academic systems for increased equity describes the values and motivations that drive her team's design of The Integrated Science Program. This program creates the conditions for expert STEM learning. She discusses the power of systems thinking, circular economic principles, sustainable prac...
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Dr. Alexander Stein on Psychoanalysis as a Technology for Positive Change and Influence at Scale

January 23, 2024 • 69 mins
Dr. Stein discusses his work consulting with executives and teams as a psychodynamic strategy consultant. He discusses the impact psychoanalysis can have on people and dynamics between people within business contexts. He centers decision making and caring in his work and muses about AI and the future from the perspective of the C-suite advisor role. His work is ultimately about how psychodynamic strategy consul...
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Morgan Venable on big tech, its consequences and the future

December 5, 2023 • 55 mins
Morgan Venable, inventor, product developer and former Ideo, Google, Microsoft and Amazon senior tech product developer discusses his current projects including his work on the Datahand, an ergonomic keyboard that prevents and heals repetitive stress injuries from keyboarding and the future of tech including its impact on our mental health and social landscape.
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Dr. Paul Slovic on feelings and decision making at the societal level including Technology and Political Applications

November 16, 2023 • 71 mins
Dr. Paul Slovic, decision scientist and accomplished academic and researcher discusses human decision making, judgements, and risk with an emphasis on the role of feelings as applied to genocide, war, smoking, advertising, addiction and nuclear arms.
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Stephen Cognetta on working in tech and the future

October 11, 2023 • 39 mins
In this episode we interview Stephen Cognetta, CEO of Exponent, a firm that helps tech workers land their dream job. We discuss his career development including running HackMentalHealth, the world's largest mental health hackathon, his thoughts on the future of tech and the role psychoanalysis might play in helping tech workers to develop.
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Second Season Trailer Episode

July 28, 2023 • 5 mins
This the a short trailer describing the focus of season 2 of Technology and the Mind. In this season we broaden our discussions by interviewing leaders in the tech sector, techno ethicists, business consultants, venture capitalists, politicians, philosophers and academics in dialogue with psychoanalysts about consumer tech products and services and the impacts these may have on our minds, relationships and society...
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Dr. Kimberlyn Leary on Race, Bias, Belonging, and Consumer Technology

June 10, 2023 • 45 mins
In this episode Dr. Leary discusses psychoanalytic ideas about race, bias, equity and belonging and how technology may play a role in how people and our communities experience race and belonging.
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Dr. Jeremy Soh on Creativity, Dreams and Technology

June 5, 2023 • 49 mins
Dr. Jeremy Soh discusses creativity and dreams - what they are, why we should care about them and how technology may impact our capacity to be creative and to dream.
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Dr. Isabel Millar on AI, Consciousness and Sex

May 4, 2023 • 48 mins
Dr. Millar shifts the question of is AI conscious to the question of does AI enjoy. She explores areas of sexuality, consent and suffering in AI and suggests that Kantian ethics and Lacanian notions of jouissance may be helpful in understanding how we might secure freedom and privacy as we relate to AI.
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Dr. Patricia Gherovici on Perversion and Porn

April 10, 2023 • 49 mins
Dr. Patricia Gherovici discusses perversion, sexuality and porn. She discusses the use of technology and muses about its impact on our ability to dream and imagine.
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Dr. Mitchell Wilson on materiality, embodiment and proximity in psychoanalysis

March 7, 2023 • 45 mins
Dr. Mitchell Wilson discusses a few cases that illustrate the importance of materiality, embodiment and proximity in psychoanalysis and muses about the meanings for our profession and the future.
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Dr. Todd Essig on teleanalysis and tech-mediated relating

January 25, 2023 • 40 mins
Dr. Todd Essig discusses the differences between teleanalysis and traditional in person psychoanalysis and how this may be useful in understanding tech-mediated relating outside of the consulting relationship.
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