Digital Freud: The Refiguration of Inequality, Sociality, and Personhood in Mental Health Work

In this talk I will draw from an ongoing, interview-based ethnographic study with mental health professionals (N= 100 to date) in the Greater Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires, Argentina, to examine how they use communication technology in their clinical practice. The analysis will show that digitizing mental health work is tied to major transformations in broader issues of inequality, sociality, and personhood in contemporary life.