List #20 - 'Psychodigitalisation' of global crisis or 'emerging investment opportunity in Brain Capital'?
After a brief summer hiatus, some materials that may be of interest for reflecting on technological experiments in mental healthcare & crisis support.
From around the web…
🎙 Mental health and artificial intelligence: losing your voice, a poem, Dan McQuillan, Open Democracy, 12 November 2018
🤳 S.T.O.P. x RadTech - Affect & the Algorithm: Mental Health & the Risks of Emotion AI, a webinar, Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (with Hannah Zeavin and Amelia Vance), 9 December 2021.
📷 Electronic Visit Verification: The Weight of Surveillance and The Fracturing Of Care, Alexandra Mateescu, Data and Society, 16 November 2021
📵 Corpses in the street, psychologist on the phone: Telepsychology, neoliberalism and Covid-19 in Ecuador, Manuel Capella, Somatosphere.net, 15 December 2020
In scholarship…
🔢 Protecting Mental Health Data Privacy in India: The Case of Data Linkage With Aadhaar, Ameya Bondre, Soumitra Pathare, John Naslund, (2021) 9(3) Global Health: Science and Practice.
📜 The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy Hannah Zeavin, MIT Press, 2021
🛋 A critique of digital mental health via assessing the psychodigitalisation of the COVID-19 crisis, Jan de Vos, Psychotherapy and Politics International 19(1) 2021 (in Special Issue: The psychopolitics of global crises and online therapy)
And for a slightly different view to de Vos…
💰 Brain Capital: An Emerging Investment Opportunity, Harris Eyre et al. Psychiatric Times, 24 February 2022
Research-in-progress…
📚 P Gooding and DM Clifford, ‘“Semi-Automated Care”: Video-Algorithmic Patient Monitoring and Surveillance in Care Settings’ ($) (2021) 18(4) Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (please message for copy if paywall is prohibitive)