Andrew Archer

The Subversive Therapist

Society EN ↓ 51 episodes

This is not self-help! Andrew Archer, LICSW is a psychotherapist and father of three young children. The Subversive Therapist disrupts the Western notion of self within the cultural myth of hyper-individualism, while exploring personality development, Zen Buddhism, Transactional Analysis, and our relationship to the virtual world. Each episode contains psychological constructs to comprehend who we are and more importantly, who we are becoming in an impotent age of automation, hyper-stimulation, and precariousness.

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Andrew Archer

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S1, Part 1, Introduction / Personality Structure 26.08.2021 28:37

Americans average 12 hours per day on electronics in the virtual world , or, less than half their life in the real world. Tech platforms are using artificial intelligence (i.e., computer algorithms) to extract our behavioral data in order to reflexively predict what we will want based on what we wanted in the past. The more accurate the prediction, the better we become at wanting , i.e., cra...