Aaron Balick – Why does social media weaponize our reactions?
This Jungian Life Podcast
Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2023
⏱️ 127 minutes
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Summary
Aaron Balick is a psychotherapist, speaker, consultant, educator, and author of The Psychodynamics of Social Networking.
Social media invites snap emotional reactions, muddling clear thinking and escalating global tensions. It feeds on our anger, oversimplifying complex problems which blocks our ability to empathize. Nuanced explanations are demonized as if seeking to understand was an affront. If we learn to pause and reflect, we can overcome social media's divisive influence and discover middle-ground solutions in both personal and world affairs.
Prepare to discover where emotional reactivity has been weaponized in social media, what geopolitical consequences are still felt from impulsive reactions, how to distinguish between a reactive and responsive attitude, whether expressing an understanding of complex issues will get you cancelled, why platforms simplify and sensationalize issues and so much more…
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Articles
Psychoanalytic reflections on Google, social networking, and ‘virtual impingement’: https://www.aaronbalick.com/_files/ugd/1259db_01c6c18517364bbfa1947db34847ff58.pdf
Social Media, Identity, and Careful Culture: https://www.aaronbalick.com/_files/ugd/1259db_6341c94972f34694b39722901c5534cd.pdf
On The Failure to Understand: The Psychology of Weaponised Reactivity: https://www.aaronbalick.com/post/on-the-failure-to-understand-the-psychology-of-weaponised-reactivity
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this Jungian life. |
| 0:03.0 | Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marciano, Deborah Stewart and Joseph Lee, |
| 0:09.0 | invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation that brings a psychological perspective to important issues of the day. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Lisa Marciano and I'm a youngian analyst in Philadelphia. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm Joseph Lee and I'm a youngian analyst in Philadelphia. I'm Joseph Lee and I'm a youngian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm Deborah Stewart, a youngian analyst on Cape Cod. God. Well, welcome. We're really pleased with this episode. I feel like it was such an interesting |
| 0:44.0 | conversation we had with us Dr. Aaron Balick and he is a psycho analyst and has |
| 0:51.9 | special knowledge in the area of social media. |
| 0:56.8 | And we've been talking about reactivity, projection, |
| 1:01.8 | the wounds, and how we deal with those wounds and how sometimes we become very |
| 1:06.6 | reactive in the face of those wounds and then how that all plays out on social |
| 1:11.4 | media especially in light of global events of the past several weeks. |
| 1:17.5 | So I'll just tell you a little bit about Dr. Balak. |
| 1:21.4 | He is a psychotherapist, a consultant, a cultural theorist, a public speaker, and an author. |
| 1:28.0 | Drawing on more than 20 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, organizations, and society. |
| 1:41.0 | And he's the author of the book, The Psychodynamics of Social Networking. |
| 1:46.5 | And he has also written two self-help books, The Little Book of Calm and Keep Your Cool, which was written for children. |
| 1:54.5 | So we really appreciated having him on and |
| 1:57.1 | we think you're going to wind up talking a little bit today about the ills of social media, |
| 2:17.0 | or at least some of the dangers of social media maybe, but of course, you know, it also does this wonderful thing like connect me with |
| 2:24.7 | interesting people and I saw you posted this really terrific interesting blog |
| 2:31.3 | post in the past several days about reactivity and I just so |
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