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1PLAKUN: Past Medical Director/CEO, The Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, MA; and Founder, American Psychiatric Association Psychotherapy Caucus, Washington, DC.
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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.
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