Technology and the Mind

Dr. Nicolle Zapien
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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.

  1. 10/23/2025

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

    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.

  2. 04/15/2025

    Phenomenology, aesthetics and technology with Dr. Tone Roald

    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.

    46 min

  3. 02/26/2025

    Teleanalysis, Telehealth and Teletraining with Dr. Leora Trub

    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.

    53 min

  4. 11/27/2024

    User Experience Design Research and technology used to help with neurodevelopment

    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.

    36 min

  5. 10/29/2024

    AI and the Unconscious: The Importance of Psychoanalysis in Tech Development with Dr. Luca Possati

    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.

    58 min

  6. 07/04/2024

    Critical Sexuality Studies and SexTech with Dr. Michelle Marzullo

    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.

    59 min

  7. 05/18/2024

    Human Virtuality and Digital Life: Philosophical and Psychoanalytic Investigations

    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, important philosophers and psychoanalytic theorists. In the end we discuss AI, thinking, dreaming, and the generational divide and post-truth political landscape that is fueled by technology. For additional resources please see: Dreaming in the Digital Age, Thoughts on the Technological Pharmakon. POLIGRAFI , 28 (109/110), pp. 59-82.: http://ojs.zrs-kp.si/index.php/poligrafi/article/view/404 Digital Animism. Towards a New Materialism, Religions 2023, 14(2), 264; https://www.mdpi.com/2140582 The Power of Ghosts, Jung Journal Culture and Psyche September 2013 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272120809_The_Power_of_Ghosts Frankel, R. “Dreaming Life in the Digital Age” in Goodman, D and Clemente, M. (eds). (2024) The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity, and Technology. London: Routledge. Frankel, R. "New Introduction to the Classic Edition of The Adolescent Psyche” in Frankel, R. (2023) The Adolescent Psyche: Jungian and Winnicottian Perspectives. London: Routledge. Frankel, R. “Digital Melancholy” in Jung Journal: Culture and Psyche. 2013, Vol. 7, No. 4.

    1 hr

  8. 04/02/2024

    The Importance of Professional Advocacy for Mental Health Treatment Choice in the Times of Ubiquitous Technology

    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-oriented clinicians should advocate and educate the public, particularly while there are significant strategic interests in among tech apps, investors and insurance companies in shaping the marketplace for consumers.

    1h 7m
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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.

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  • Creator
    Dr. Nicolle Zapien
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2025
  • Episodes
    27
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Technology and the Mind Dr. Nicolle Zapien
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