Early Interventions in AI

Early Interventions in AI

I was speaking with a long-term client recently with whom I have a solid therapeutic relationship, and in the middle of session he reported suddenly feeling totally disconnected from me.  Now I’m a pretty good therapist, but I’m not above being occasionally distant or making a mistake, so I didn’t take it as a serious problem, but I did start exploring the experience with them.  And after a few minutes of talking around the edges of it, my client says something like “it just didn't feel like I was talking to a real person for a second there, it felt like when I talk to AI.”

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Why Are Men So Lonely?

Why Are Men So Lonely?

When I was in grad school, I would often see a sight on campus that would stop me in my tracks: guys my age walking around holding hands as friends.  I’d seen guys hold hands before, as partners, but never platonically.  The guys in question were from Nepal, studying abroad here in America, and they explained to me that they simply didn’t have the same hang-ups as me and all of my male friends did - this was what friends did.  It was stunning to see, and I was beyond jealous of them for being able to connect like that.  I still am.

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