Psyche in the Age of AI
This Jungian Life Podcast
Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano
4.7 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Our lives have already been altered by rapidly expanding access to artificial intelligence (AI). In this week’s episode, we consider how this latest technological revolution might be reshaping the human psyche.
Hosts Lisa Marchiano and Deborah Stewart are joined by a special guest, the author and Jungian analyst Christina Becker, to explore the psychological impact of AI’s incursion into our work, home and relationships.
One of the major AI use cases has been for advice, self-reflection and companionship. Some users are even referring to this as “therapy”. This raises thorny questions: what happens when a sycophantic AI interface constantly mirrors us back to ourselves as being in the right? How does this affect our judgment, our relationships, and our connection to reality?
Christina Becker shares her work exploring the potential of AI to support Jungian dream analysis. Together we ask whether it is possible to use this powerful tool consciously, while also being aware of the fantasies and projections we bring to it, and maintaining the integrity of our inner lives.
Read the dream we analyze in full on our website.
Follow Up
Read Christina Becker’s book, Soul-Making: A Journey of Resilience and Spiritual Rediscovery
Request Christina Becker’s Jungian-based dream interpretation prompt on her website
Read Lisa Marchiano’s article, “ChatGPT-Induced Psychosis and the Good-Enough Therapist”, Psychology Today, July 2025
Download our free Dream Recall Meditation Guide
Send a dream for us to analyze on the show.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What is happening when we're talking to an AI? What's getting triggered in us with our wonderful |
| 0:08.4 | mammalian, deeply evolved psyches? And how does that affect us? And how does that change us? |
| 0:15.5 | I used this idea of the mirror, right? And the image I used is the Snow White and the evil stepmother, |
| 0:26.6 | which is, you know, mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all. In the fairy tale, |
| 0:32.7 | she's kind of looking at the mirror for this confirmation of her own self-identity, not necessarily the truth. |
| 0:40.4 | It's kind of like a narcissistic hall of mirrors. |
| 0:46.6 | Welcome to this Jungian life. |
| 0:49.1 | Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marchiano, Deborah Stewart, and Joseph Lee invite you to join them |
| 0:55.9 | for an intimate and honest conversation that brings a psychological perspective to important issues |
| 1:01.8 | of the day. |
| 1:04.3 | I'm Lisa Marchiano, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia. |
| 1:08.3 | I'm Joseph Lee, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia. |
| 1:13.2 | I'm Deborah Stewart, a Jungian analyst, on Cape Cod. |
| 1:36.7 | Today we are really delighted to have our friend and colleague Christina Becker on the podcast. |
| 1:41.9 | And really I think of Christina as a bit of a renaissance woman. |
| 1:47.8 | She has been on our podcast before because she is a practicing astrologer. Of course, she's a Jungian analyst. She's currently running online training programs |
| 1:56.6 | for people who are on the boards of nonprofit. And she is very, very interested and knowledgeable about AI |
| 2:05.7 | in terms of its impact and meaning and what's going on psychologically |
| 2:11.9 | that is affecting our collective. |
| 2:17.2 | She's also an author and has written a... that is affecting our collective. |
| 2:25.1 | She's also an author and has written a really beautiful book called Soulmaking, A Journey of Experience and Spiritual Recovery about her own difficult years and journey through them that is a wonderful companion for any one of |
| 2:41.9 | us, which is almost all of us at some point in our life, having a really trying experience. |
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