{"id":670,"date":"2026-02-28T07:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T07:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/why-even-perfect-ai-therapy-may-be-structurally-doomed-marginal-revolution\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T07:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T07:57:07","slug":"why-even-perfect-ai-therapy-may-be-structurally-doomed-marginal-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/why-even-perfect-ai-therapy-may-be-structurally-doomed-marginal-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Why even &#8216;perfect&#8217; AI therapy may be structurally doomed &#8211; Marginal REVOLUTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>But all else equal: does infinite, on-demand therapy\u2014even assuming the highest quality per unit of therapeutic interaction\u2014sound like a good idea to you? I can tell you, to me it does not. First of all, despite detractors\u2019 claims to the contrary, the basic idea of therapy is not to make you dependent for life\u2014but rather, to equip you to live more skillfully and with greater self-awareness. As integration specialists famously say of psychedelics, you can only incorporate so much insight, and practice skills so effectively, without the chance to digest what you\u2019ve learned over time.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, even in good old talk therapy, drinking from the hose without breaks for practice and introspection in a more organic context risks drowning out the chance for real change and practical insight.&nbsp;To my mind, this rhythm is the basic structural genius of psychotherapy as we know it\u2014no matter the modality, no matter the diagnosis.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2026\/02\/why-even-perfect-ai-therapy-may-be-structurally-doomed.html\">marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2026\/02\/why-even-perfect-ai-therapy-may-be-structurally-doomed.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But all else equal: does infinite, on-demand therapy\u2014even assuming the highest quality per unit of therapeutic interaction\u2014sound like a good idea to you? I can tell you, to me it does not. First of all, despite detractors\u2019 claims to the contrary, the basic idea of therapy is not to make you dependent for life\u2014but rather, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,97,96],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-ai","tag-psychoanalysis","tag-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}