If Your Shrink Is A Bot, How Do You Respond?

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Click Here to Read: If Your Shrink Is A Bot, How Do You Respond? by Alix Spiegel on the NPR  Shots.com website on May 20, 2013.

Ellie (right) is a computer simulation designed to engage real people, like the woman on the left, in meaningful conversation and take their measure. The computer system looks for subtle patterns in body language and vocal inflections that might be clues to underlying depression or other emotional distress.

A Psychotherapy for the People by Lewis Aron & Karen Starr

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Click Here to Read: Table of Contents and  Introduction, Part 1 to A Psychotherapy for the People: Toward a Progressive Psychoanalysis (Relational Perspectives Book Series) by Lewis Aron & Karen Starr.

Click Here to Read:   Introduction, Part 2 to A Psychotherapy for the People: Toward a Progressive Psychoanalysis (Relational Perspectives Book Series) by Lewis Aron & Karen Starr.

Click Here To Read:   Introduction, Part 3 to A Psychotherapy for the People: Toward a Progressive Psychoanalysis (Relational Perspectives Book Series) by Lewis Aron & Karen Starrn.

The current State of the Empirical Evidence for Psychoanalysis

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Click Here to Read: The Current State of the Empirical Evidence for
Psychoanalysis: A Meta-analytic Approach by Saskia de Maat, PhD, Frans de Jonghe, PhD, R uth de Kraker, MSc, Falk Leichsenring, PhD,Allan Abbass, MD, Patrick Luyten, PhD, Jacques P. Barber, PhD, Rien Van, MD, PhD, and Jack Dekker, PhD.

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Thie article originally appeared as Saskia de Maat, PhD, Frans de Jonghe, PhD, R uth de Kraker, MSc, Falk Leichsenring, PhD,Allan Abbass, MD, Patrick Luyten, PhD, Jacques P. Barber, PhD, Rien Van, MD, PhD, and Jack Dekker, PhD. (2013). The Current State of the Empirical Evidence for Psychoanalysis: A Meta-analytic Approach. Harvard Review of Psychiatry 2013 May-Jun;21(3):107-37. doi: 10.1097/HRP.0b013e318294f5fd and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.