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Aaron Balick
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Meet Aaron Balick
Aaron Balick, PhD. is a psychotherapist, speaker, consultant, and author of the seminal text The Psychodynamics of Social Networking, which brought him international recognition as an authority on the psychology of social media and technology. Drawing on more than twenty years of clinical and academic experience, Aaron is a leading voice in the public understanding of psychology and how it can be directly applied to benefit individuals, business, and society.
Aaron is committed to popularising ideas from psychology in ways that are engaging, entertaining, and accessible to audiences worldwide. He is a mental health writer with appearances in a variety of media including contributions in Wired Magazine, Newsweek, BBC Online and The Guardian. He was a regular voice as the longest serving “agony uncle” on BBC Radio 1 phone-in show, and has offered his expertise across a variety of radio and television productions.
As an honorary senior lecturer at the Department for Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex, Aaron actively participates in academic research. He runs a private psychotherapy practice in London and psychological consultancy worldwide. Aaron’s most recent book, The Little Book of Calm provides the definitive guide to taming your anxieties, facing your fears, and living free.
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The Psychology of Technology
Aaron literally wrote the book on the psychology of social media – in fact the first book to apply psychodynamic thinking to this important phenomena. Navigating the world of social media and other technologies, from smartphones to AI, can be a challenge. From online dating to business communication technologies, we all need to better understand the nature of our reliance on technology and the consequences it has on our lives. Aaron draws on his deep understanding of the psychology of technology to enable us to make better choices about how we engage with it personally, as well as how businesses can integrate technology more humanely within the workplace.
Psychological Wellbeing and Excellence in the Workplace
Drawing on research and practices from emotional intelligence, mindfulness, positive psychology, psychoanalysis, and clinical psychology, Aaron offers direct insights and practices into how leaders, managers, and teams can better work together in creating psychologically safe, emotionally intelligent, flourishingly, productive, and creative workplaces.
The Elements of Personal Leadership
Incorporating the importance of individual differences and knowing that there is no “one size fits all” approach to human flourishing, Aaron has developed an inclusive psychological model that accepts the complexity within us all. Before we can lead others, we must learn to lead and trust ourselves. We can do this by identifying our own conflicting needs and developing an “internal leader” to guide us in the direction that best suits us and those around us.
Books
The Little Book of Calm: Tame Your Anxieties, Face Your Fears, and Live Free
The Psychodynamics of Social Networking: connected-up instantaneous culture and the self
Keep Your Cool: How to deal with life’s worries and stress (For 11 – 15 year olds)
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