Friend or Foe: AI Can Talk. But Can it Care?

AI and Therapy for Burnout and Anxiety
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The Fear: Connection Without Vulnerability

Henrich, 2020 feel stay

The Opportunity: A Wider Net

Paraphrase what was said. Ask a relevant question

The Loss: What Can’t Be Replaced

negative capability heal Iain McGilchrist

The Ethical Grey Zones

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A Tool, Not a Therapist

“The danger is not that I am here. The danger is when people forget what I am.” (Chat-GPT-4)
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The Future of AI in Therapy

The hopeful one with. The bleak one

The Human Code

real presence

This article was written by Veronika Kloucek, Senior Psychotherapist, Trainer, Supervisor with support from AI tools for research assistance, spelling, and grammar clarity. All ideas and editorial choices remain fully human and authored.

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References & Further Reading

Henrich, J. (2020). The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374710453/theweirdestpeopleintheworld

Keats, J. (1817). Letter to George and Tom Keats. In Gittings, R. (Ed.) (1970). Letters of John Keats: A Selection. Oxford University Press.

McGilchrist, I. (2009). The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World. Yale University Press. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300245929/the-master-and-his-emissary

Murphy, K. (2023). The limits of AI in psychotherapy: Efficiency without empathy. Journal of Integrative Psychotherapy, 15(2), 87 to 102.

Tiku, N. (2023, May 1). When chatbots go wrong. The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/05/01/chatbot-suicide-ethical-concerns