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AI Empathy Is Counterfeit. Here's How to Tell.
AI empathy sounds perfect. That's exactly the problem. Real empathy is messy, physical, and sometimes uncomfortable. Here's how to spot the difference.
September 17, 2026 · 9 min read
The Economic Force That's Killing Therapy, and It's Not AI
Everyone's panicking about chatbots replacing therapists. Meanwhile, the prescription pad already did. The real extinction event is economics.
August 17, 2026 · 9 min read
Most Therapy Has Too Many Words
Therapy is the 'talking cure.' But the most powerful moments in my office happen when nobody is saying a damn thing.
April 15, 2026 · 8 min read
Will AI Replace You as a Psychotherapist?
An 88-year-old psychiatrist with 55 years of evidence takes on AI. Not with fear. With the truth about what happens in a room.
December 15, 2025 · 14 min read
Your Therapist Has a Gut Feeling About You. ChatGPT Doesn't.
AI's bedside manner is impeccable. That's the problem. What clinical intuition does that pattern-matching never will.
November 20, 2025 · 10 min read
The Algorithm Can't Tell You're Not Looking at Me
What happens in a therapy room that no sensor can capture. The micro-observations that change everything.
November 1, 2025 · 9 min read
I Need My Patients as Much as They Need Me
No psychiatrist I know would say this. But it's the truth, and it's exactly why the relationship works.
October 15, 2025 · 11 min read
Feelings Are the Insight (Not the Other Way Around)
The Freudian model got it backwards. Insight isn't the destination. The feeling is. And most therapists are still teaching it wrong.
July 15, 2025 · 9 min read
Why I Offered to Meet My Patient's Father
Most therapists stay in their lane. I offer to meet family members, step into real life, and close the gap between the session and the world.
May 1, 2025 · 8 min read
What I Learned from 55 Years of Being Wrong
My own analysis was a waste of time. I say that openly. The best clinicians aren't the ones who got it right. They're the ones who kept growing.
April 1, 2025 · 10 min read
Do You Know What I'm Thinking Right Now?
It's a question that stops patients cold. 'What do you think I'm thinking about what you just said?' Forces a shift that changes everything.
March 1, 2025 · 8 min read
God Walked Into My Therapy Room (And Nobody Asked Him to Leave)
I'm not religious. But some therapeutic moments have a quality I can only describe as spiritual. When two people are fully present, something sacred happens.
February 1, 2025 · 9 min read
Questions Are More Important Than Answers (Especially in Therapy)
A good therapist doesn't give you answers. A good therapist teaches you how to ask the right questions, and then gets out of the way.
January 15, 2025 · 8 min read
The Tragedy in Aurora and James Holmes
The Aurora tragedy forces us to revisit questions of free will, personal responsibility, and mental illness.
July 25, 2012 · 6 min read