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Topic: Virtual Therapist
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PixieJane
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From: CA
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted June 18, 2014 10:30 PM
  
I actually like this idea. While I'd have a few minor concerns they'd pale to the concerns I'd have talking to a live person about something I wanted to be counseled on as a virtual therapist could help me figure out my own thoughts without projecting its own issues into me or other malpractice. Obviously, it wouldn't good against genuine neurochemical disorders (note the operative word being "genuine"), but that needs a doctor and is a medical condition.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAFKzDNAXSI Btw, I vaguely recall reading of a study that showed that people showed more improvement that was inverse to how much education and training the therapist had. And from my own experience the only two professional therapists that helped me was one in training (who couldn't ethically charge me so didn't) and another who just managed a support group and me and others mostly talked to each other with the therapist as more of a referee. IP: Logged |
Ami Anne
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From: Pluto/house next to NickiG
Registered: Sep 2010
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posted June 18, 2014 11:10 PM
I think one thing will help people and that is honesty, given with love. Where or how people get this, it doesn't matter, they will heal imo------------------
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DeepFreeze
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From: Pluto with Barbiegirl19
Registered: Nov 2013
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posted June 18, 2014 11:42 PM
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Originally posted by Ami Anne:
I think one thing will help people and that is honesty, given with love. Where or how people get this, it doesn't matter, they will heal imo
They have to be accepting to it though. If they prefer to live in denial then you will gain an enemy, or very ****** off friend.
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Padre35
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From: Asheville, NC, US
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posted June 18, 2014 11:59 PM
From my experience, many veteran psychologists, are completely bat **** crazy themselves.Perhaps not the same as a therapist, still a virtual therapist could have merit IP: Logged |
Dancing Maenad
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From: The Harvest
Registered: Mar 2014
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posted June 19, 2014 04:45 AM
My therapist was initially against the idea, but has made exceptions for 2 or 3 people and she still got results. I personally like the thought of that, for 2 reasons: there are times when it gets too intense in person and I could keep a record of all we've discussed and read it afterwards - unless it's via chat, but that can also be recorded. ------------------
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Ami Anne
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From: Pluto/house next to NickiG
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posted June 19, 2014 07:35 AM
Totally, DF  ------------------
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Faith
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posted June 19, 2014 08:48 AM
The things I would most want to talk about, I wouldn't want to put into a text message. Not enough privacy.And even though I wouldn't be confessing any crimes, the fact that therapists have to hand over their files to law enforcement on demand just undermines everything therapists have to offer, IMO. quote:
Originally posted by PixieJane:
Btw, I vaguely recall reading of a study that showed that people showed more improvement that was inverse to how much education and training the therapist had. And from my own experience the only two professional therapists that helped me was one in training (who couldn't ethically charge me so didn't) and another who just managed a support group and me and others mostly talked to each other with the therapist as more of a referee.
One of my friends is a therapist. She has Ceres on her Libra ASC, it's so fitting. We were friends before she was a therapist. But over time...she just gets more and more therapeutic to talk to. I've wondered if it's more because of her job (counselling people every day) or that she and I are naturally getting closer. A little of both, probably. We have a Mars conjunction in Gemini, square her Virgo moon and my Pisces moon. So there is some mirroring in synastry that applies. ETA: I've often thought about how astrologers could make some people's lives better, cheaply, just by arranging living or working conditions so that roommates or co-workers working in close proximity are more likely to be compatible. It certainly made my life better, and more interesting, that my first college rooomate's birthday was three days before mine. Same wavelength about a lot of things, and less tension overall. IP: Logged |
Padre35
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From: Asheville, NC, US
Registered: Jul 2012
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posted June 20, 2014 05:51 AM
For myself, I'd offer up the role of the clergy or rabbi or other religious/spiritual counselor as a different avenue for counseling.As from my pov, the issues that arrive in life that are not chemically related can have a dual emotional/spiritual basis. IP: Logged |
StarlightSmileSupreme
Knowflake Posts: 8712
From: neptune
Registered: Nov 2012
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posted June 21, 2014 09:45 AM
It would be interesting if they came up with a way to erase everything you told the virtual therapist so you could tell it anything without fear of it coming back to haunt you. Still, it would be lurking somewhere on your hard drive, most likely, even if the V.T. snap chatted every word away to oblivion.IP: Logged |
DeepFreeze
Knowflake Posts: 2018
From: Pluto with Barbiegirl19
Registered: Nov 2013
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posted June 21, 2014 01:58 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Padre35:
For myself, I'd offer up the role of the clergy or rabbi or other religious/spiritual counselor as a different avenue for counseling.As from my pov, the issues that arrive in life that are not chemically related can have a dual emotional/spiritual basis.
Similar to what I was thinking IP: Logged |
PixieJane
Moderator Posts: 4722
From: CA
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted June 21, 2014 08:05 PM
'Course the danger of going to clergy is the same as others: they can easily project their own issues into you and they may not be as spiritual as you think. At least a few prey on those who come to them for help (in an extreme case a sexually abused teen girl went to her church youth counselor for help and only ended up getting sexually abused by him as well which made her give up in trying to get help again as well as inspiring her to reject Christianity completely). No danger of that from a virtual program (unless, of course, it was programmed into it, and why I'd reject such a program created by Scientologists). What I like about it is that it just can measure things like facial expressions (hope no one uses it while on the toilet, it might misread something  ) and just ask the questions one might not think to ask one's self. I'd prefer robot to OL, but even OL I know I'd be a speck of sand in a sandstorm so the only way anyone could violate my privacy is be looking for me in advance in which they'd need the right tools. Even stealing my hardware wouldn't likely provide much. In any case I'd be much more worried about a live psychologist spilling my secrets. In an extreme case the defense of a serial rapist managed to get hold of the psychological records of a victim, learned she told her psychiatrist her dad sexually abused her but didn't dare say anything to the rest of the family for fear of being abandoned, and then the defense then entered that in public record to say she was misdirecting her anger at her father at the serial rapist--the same serial rapist who broke her bones in the process of raping her--and that defense strategy cost her the support of her family. I bet that defense attorney couldn't have pulled that same trick with a virtual therapist, at least not without being challenged by the lawyers of whatever company was running it first, and that would assume that it was possible to find and retrieve the information AND that the defense knew about it in the first place. IP: Logged |
Randall
Webmaster Posts: 41960
From: Saturn next to Charmainec
Registered: Apr 2009
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posted June 26, 2014 03:51 PM
Would Siri work?IP: Logged |
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