I call the people fighting to remove the human from the psychotherapy equation ‘algorithm warriors.’ I’m on the other side, standing with those defending psychotherapy as a professional practice ever more sharply focussed on the healing power of human relationships. I talked about this last weekend in a presentation to a conference organized by the Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN) titled ‘Advancing Psychotherapy for the Next Generation: Rehumanizing Mental Health Policy and Practice.’ What follows comes from that talk presented in San Francisco on 12/14/19.”
