The Doctor Is Input
Bad news for shrinks. You’re being replaced by machines. Right now. Of course it is the British National Health Sevice, where I’m willing to bet machines for any number of cultural and bureaucratic reasons are preferable. But you’re still being replaced by machines.  I don’t know about you, but as a Yank of uptight, stiff upper lip Brit ancestry, I think I’d rather unload to a machine any day. Now that I think about it, I pretty much unload to a machine everyday as it is.  Â
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Posted by Jules Crittenden at 6:27 pm on Friday, October 5, 2007
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October 6th, 2007 at 6:15 am
The Doctor Is Input
“Last year, two [computer] programs were endorsed by Britain’s health officials for people with panic attacks, mild depression, or phobias.” Hopefully one of them was Eliza……
October 6th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
No offense to those practitioners like Dr. Helen and Dr. Sanity, but after years of dealing with psychologists-in-training (through my university’s graduate school), I’d rather talk to a machine.
October 6th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
RebeccaH: “I’d rather talk to a machine.”
Ain’t it the truth.
October 7th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
after years of dealing with psychologists-in-training (through my university’s graduate school), I’d rather talk to a machine
:-)
I was thinking about the APA conventions where they were all worried about the decline in the popularity of F2F therapy.
And the shrinks got real in the cyber age, and now do sessions over the phone and the internet.
Adaptation R Us