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Aaron Balick 🍉
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Leading voice on how tech & culture shape the psyche. Psychotherapist | Consultant | Psych writer at GQ | Keynote speaker | Author of The Psychodynamics of Social Networking | aaronbalick.com
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Check out my latest long read where I’ve pulled together my thinking over the last few months comprehensively into one place - including links to the latest research and resources to pursue further;

www.aaronbalick.com/post/ai-ther...
AI, Therapy, and the Digitally Extended Self: A Comprehensive Psychodynamic Exploration
Artificial intelligence is reshaping mental health, intimacy, and the very idea of what it means to relate to others. This is a consolidation and expansion of my Substack series on AI and Mental Healt...
www.aaronbalick.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Check out my latest long read where I’ve pulled together my thinking over the last few months comprehensively into one place - including links to the latest research and resources to pursue further;

www.aaronbalick.com/post/ai-ther...
AI, Therapy, and the Digitally Extended Self: A Comprehensive Psychodynamic Exploration
Artificial intelligence is reshaping mental health, intimacy, and the very idea of what it means to relate to others. This is a consolidation and expansion of my Substack series on AI and Mental Healt...
www.aaronbalick.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
This is already reshaping how people relate to themselves and each other. If an AI gives you perfect performance of attunement on demand, what does that do to your tolerance for the messiness of real relationships?
November 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The performance of attunement invites us to treat AI as if it’s another human mind — even when it absolutely isn’t.
November 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I’m all about the heat. The tropics, saunas, getting into an overheated car on a hot sunny day. I get my thermals out when it hits 12 degrees. This was well out of my comfort zone.
November 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Never mind bourgeoisie.
November 7, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I have to double check “weird” every time I write it down. I’m a terrible speller. Shit hot grammarian, terrible speller.
November 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
So good.
November 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
(I’m posting this more as a wonderful Jackson Lamb quote - not a maxim!)
November 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM