TY - JOUR
T1 - Thoughts on computerized psychotherapy
AU - Spero, Moshe H.
PY - 1978/8
Y1 - 1978/8
N2 - This Essay looks at the eventuality of computerized psychotherapy and attempts a philosophical analysis of the value, limitations, and efficacy of such hypothetical computerized psychotherapy devices (CPDs). The essential thesis is that while computers may be ‘intellectually’ capable of performing certain skills that have up until now been associated wholly with the human mind, still other, affective responses, such as empathy, sympathy and compathy, are not within the CPD’s ken. Thus, in cases where such affective potential is believed to be a therapeutic necessity, the possibility of the CPD as an effective therapeutic agent may be undesirable.
AB - This Essay looks at the eventuality of computerized psychotherapy and attempts a philosophical analysis of the value, limitations, and efficacy of such hypothetical computerized psychotherapy devices (CPDs). The essential thesis is that while computers may be ‘intellectually’ capable of performing certain skills that have up until now been associated wholly with the human mind, still other, affective responses, such as empathy, sympathy and compathy, are not within the CPD’s ken. Thus, in cases where such affective potential is believed to be a therapeutic necessity, the possibility of the CPD as an effective therapeutic agent may be undesirable.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0018104999&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/00332747.1978.11023984
DO - 10.1080/00332747.1978.11023984
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C2 - 693723
AN - SCOPUS:0018104999
SN - 0033-2747
VL - 41
SP - 279
EP - 288
JO - Psychiatry (New York)
JF - Psychiatry (New York)
IS - 3
ER -
