BrightonPsych

Why AI “therapy” between sessions may feel helpful - but is quietly undermining real psychotherapy and change. 🧵 I am seeing more and more articles about how AI can be used to support patients between sessions. This is why this is a bad idea:

‘Autism’ as an excuse for sexual misconduct. Yeah… there’s another word for that. Think its narcissism. bbc.com/news/articles/…

'If you want to be loved and liked, don't go into psychotherapy. Because you have to put up with people hating you, because they have not been able to express that hatred to the real people who didn't take care of them, didn't welcome them, ignored them.' - Estela Welldon

Jung is on the money: modern man - scientific man - has lost the ability to think symbolically and understand the unconscious. We take everything on face value and social media is simply accelerating this. Most of our individual and thus collective behaviours are not quite what…