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Dear Dr Danielle

A psychoanalyst answers your questions about human-AI relations Dear Dr. Danielle, Is it me or is the world losing its mind? I’ve been in psychodynamic therapy for a long […]

Refractions in the Digital Mirror

Refractions in the Digital Mirror Using Psychoanalysis to Understand and Address AI Bias By Dr. Karyne E. Messina The Problem: AI Bias in Practice Imagine a not-too-distant future when […]

AI 2027: Through a Psychoanalytic Lens

By Karyne E. Messina, EdD Some people take comfort in imagining AI as a child. Innocent. Malleable. In need of guidance. But what if that’s wishful thinking? The AI 2027 […]

From Chatbots to Cyber Ops: Klein’s Theories and the Age of AI Anxiety

By Karyne E. Messina, EdD In May 2025, Defense News revealed that artificial intelligence voice agents are now guiding interrogations and screening personnel for security clearances within the U.S. military. […]

Free Association in the Age of AI

by Danielle Knafo, PhD When patients speak to the analyst about “whatever comes to mind” in a stream of free associations, they express thought and meaning largely woven together unconsciously. […]

AI-Assisted Creation and the Narcissistic Predicament: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry

by Xiaomeng Qiao Artificial intelligence has fundamentally altered the psychology of creative work. As an independent game developer using AI tools for code, art, music, and prototyping over the past year, […]

The Cyber-Savvy Analyst: Meeting Adolescent Patients in Their Digital Habitat

by Danielle Knafo, PhD Contemporary psychoanalysis finds itself at a critical juncture as it grapples with the reality that many adolescent patients inhabit digital worlds as fully as they do […]

GenAI’s Promethean Paradox

Why we want and fear the power of super-intelligence by Brett T. T. Macfarlane The myth of Prometheus is a timeless way to explain the phenomenological drive behind innovative technologies, […]

The Great Illusionist and the Digital Double: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Artificial Intelligence in the Advent of a Hyperbolic Reality

by Filipe Leão Miranda & Joana Pizarro Bravo Digitality and Artificial Intelligence: The Great Disruption The emergence of technical knowledge played a fundamental role in human evolution, beginning with early […]

AI and Self-Erasure

by Richard B. Grose, PhD Introduction AI is everywhere these days, designed and marketed to help with everything. It has many faces: amazing, helpful, terrifying, consoling, powerful. In each of […]

About Alexander Stein

Entries by Alexander Stein

Dear Dr Danielle

Refractions in the Digital Mirror

AI 2027: Through a Psychoanalytic Lens

From Chatbots to Cyber Ops: Klein’s Theories and the Age of AI Anxiety

Free Association in the Age of AI

AI-Assisted Creation and the Narcissistic Predicament: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry

The Cyber-Savvy Analyst: Meeting Adolescent Patients in Their Digital Habitat

GenAI’s Promethean Paradox

The Great Illusionist and the Digital Double: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Artificial Intelligence in the Advent of a Hyperbolic Reality

AI and Self-Erasure

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