For me being a retired psychotherapist AI can and will never replace or be as good as a human therapist. Ai maybe able to use some sort of formulaic structured

For me being a retired psychotherapist AI can and will never replace or be as good as a human therapist. Ai maybe able to use some sort of formulaic structured therapy like CBT but will never be able to manage human intuition, projections, projective identification, phenomenology, transference, counter-transference and the all important interpersonal, intrapersonal relationship and quality free association and dream analysis as per Freud and Lacan. You know that same CBT that claims to cure depression, eating disorders and others after 12 sessions. Yet all the research I have read comes to the same conclusion, that the symptoms return not long after a course of CBT finishes. A CBT ptractitioner trains the client to be his own therapist by teaching him or her CBT, the ABC's of CBT so that the client can use that to help themselves. But people with depression for instance to do not have the capacity to continually monitor themselves when they are depressed every day. This is not therapy, For me and most of my colleagues CBT is a brainwashing technique and to be honest CBT has never been allowed in any of the charitable organisations I worked for for many years. CBT is cheap. CBT practitioners do not have to engage in any personal therapy, It takes just a year to train as a CBT therapist wheras I and my colleagues have spent the absolute minimum of 6 years training to Masters level and then a lifetime of continued professional development. Here in the UK you can get a good couples therapist for £80 for the 50 minutes and you wont be filling any forms every week. nor risking the eventul and pretty much guaranteed intrusive hack and all your personal private sessions spread all over the internet How does AI guarantee confidentiality? it cannot, Without confidentiality there is no trust which is fundamental to all good therapy