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Different terms for something at the heart of healthy psychological functioning: -Reflective function -Mentalization -Psychological mindedness -Observing ego -Openness to experience -Self-awareness + other-awareness -Metacognition -Emotional intelligence -Perspective-taking

"We know that before infants can speak, they have highly reliable, exquisitely effective ways of communicating affect nonverbally to their caregivers. The residues of those infantile talents in adults express themselves in every interaction" - Nancy McWilliams

“…both of us came into this world in the context of unique family histories stretching generations into the past; histories that formed around factual kernels, like a dream around a day residue, passed from parent to child through projective and introjective identifications…”

There are two very different things called therapy. One is algorithmic, based on teaching skills, giving advice, etc. It can EASILY be done by AI. Actually, it can be delivered as lectures, books, even a flowchart or a pamphlet. The other cannot be delivered by LLM AI at all.

"A depressed caregiver might be unable to participate in the amplification if the infant's early elation in life. Such a child might later have a limited capacity for the experience and regulation of positive affects ... and a lack of positive self esteem" - Susan C. Vaughn

"An overly attached caregiver might be unwilling to rupture, even momentarily, her bond with her child, leading to problems with socialisation, poor impulse control and difficulty with age-appropriate separation" - Susan C. Vaughn

"A caretaker who cannot even temporarily disabuse her child of the notion that he is perfect and the center of her universe will tend to make him overly dependent on the praise of others for the regulation of his own self-esteem" - Susan C. Vaughn

This excellent new article in Psychiatric News by Steven Reidbord compares pop "therapy" to real psychotherapy. It is a must-read. psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/ap…