Psychotherapy and AI 2.0: An Update
Abstract
This second column on psychotherapy and AI offers an update on progress in domains identified in the first column, including (1) provision of a private, secure, psychologically safe space for the patient to do the work, (2) mastery of a set of techniques grounded in the theoretical underpinnings of a given form of psychotherapy, and (3) addressing issues relevant to the therapeutic relationship and therapeutic alliance in AI psychotherapy. The column reviews several recent studies of AI psychotherapy and summarizes 5 sets of "threes" for categorizing and evaluating AI psychotherapy.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Digital Mental Health Interventions
Mental Health via Writing
Emotion and Mood Recognition
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Journal of Psychiatric Practice
- Publisher
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
- Volume
- 32
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 31–34
- Publication date
- 1 January 2026
- Language
- EN