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> most forms of professional therapy the therapist shouldn't say much at all This is very untrue. Here is a list of psychotherapy modalities: https://en.wikipe
by caseyy 1y ago
> most forms of professional therapy the therapist shouldn't say much at all
This is very untrue. Here is a list of psychotherapy modalities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_psychotherapies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_psychotherapies. In most (almost every) modalities, the therapist provides an intervention and offers advice (by definition: guidance, recommendations).
There is Carl Rogers' client-centered therapy, non-directive supportive therapy, and that's it for low-intervention modalities off the top of my head. Two out of over a hundred. Hardly "most" at all.
- sheepscreek 1y agoThis is very cool. Reading through the list, I discovered: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person-centered_therapy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person-centered_therapy That sounds an awful lot like what current gen AIs are capable of. I believe we are in the very early stages of AI-assisted therapy, much like the early days of psychology itself. Before we understood what was generally acceptable and what was not, it was a Wild West with medical practitioners employing harmful techniques such as lobotomy. Because there are no standards on what constitutes an emotional support AI, or any agreed upon expectations from them, we can only go by what it seems to be capable of. And it seems to be capable of talking intelligently and logically with deep empathy. A rubber ducky 2.0 that can organize your thoughts and even infer meaning from them on demand.