Reflections on Psychiatry, Therapy, and Mental Health

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On the Growing Presence of AI It is estimated that millions of people use AI as a companion and it is likely that many of us have patients talking about AI. Amongst those of us in mental health, this invites the question, can AI contribute to therapy. I don't think it is possible to draw many conclusions at this time about the relative effectiveness of AI as a therapist, but considering this issue leads us to take a hard look at what psychotherapy is. That is, AI juxtaposed

Recently I ran across a YouTube video by a sleep expert who suggested a little exercise that might be helpful for middle-of-the-night wakers. He suggested remaining relaxed and randomly picking letters from the alphabet then doing a little word association thinking of words that begin with the chosen letter. One night I gave this a try and noticed that in my relaxed state I tended to personalize a fair amount of the words. 'C,' for example lead to: Cape Cod, Catholic, Cari