I think an LLM could replace the bottom (picking a random number) 50% of "Professional Therapists" who are, at best, a placebo and at worst pumping perfectly healthy people full of drugs and actively destroying their patients mental health.
Isn't there an active professional rivalry between psychiatrists who prescribe medication and psychologists? And talk therapists are usually the latter, or are counselors and the like who cannot write prescriptions?
More like cooperation than rivalry. But you are right that the "talk therapists" typically are educated as (practicing) psychologists. Unless they are also MDs they cannot write prescriptions, and work together with those who can (when needed). Sort of like surgeons and anesthesiologists, although the analogy is weak, of course.
I think an LLM could replace the bottom (picking a random number) 50% of "Professional Therapists" who are, at best, a placebo and at worst pumping perfectly healthy people full of drugs and actively destroying their patients mental health.
Isn't there an active professional rivalry between psychiatrists who prescribe medication and psychologists? And talk therapists are usually the latter, or are counselors and the like who cannot write prescriptions?
More like cooperation than rivalry. But you are right that the "talk therapists" typically are educated as (practicing) psychologists. Unless they are also MDs they cannot write prescriptions, and work together with those who can (when needed). Sort of like surgeons and anesthesiologists, although the analogy is weak, of course.
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