Alexander Kriss

Alexander Kriss is an American clinical psychologist and essayist whose writing examines the emotional lives of contemporary people and their technologies. His book The Gaming Mind looks at video games and their players through a clinical-therapeutic lens, arguing that video gaming is a meaningful site of fantasy, pleasure and distress.

Kriss has a private practice in clinical psychology and has written for the Los Angeles Review of Books, where he edits a column on the intersections of psychology and popular culture. Rather than moral panic, his work offers a therapist's nuanced attention to what people actually do with their games.