[AI Technologies for Diagnostics and Conversation Analysis in Psychotherapy: Opportunities and Challenges]

In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has made great progress in medicine, particularly in the analysis of medical imaging data. Its potential as an analytical tool for psychology and psychotherapy, however, has received comparatively little attention, even though current developments increasingly demonstrate that AI-based methods can offer valuable contributions to the diagnosis of mental disorders and the analysis of psychotherapeutic conversations. The aim of this article is to present the international state of research on AI-based tools and techniques for diagnostics and conversation analysis, to discuss their potential and limitations critically, and to outline future requirements for their responsible clinical use.