Emergence Of AI Personas As Simulated Therapists And Synthetic Patients For Psychotherapy Training And Research

AI personas are increasingly being used in the mental health field, such as for training and research. I share recent ...
Yahoo Finance

Is Ocugen’s (OCGN) Rare Disease Summit Spotlight Reframing Its Gene Therapy Investment Narrative?

Ocugen, Inc. recently presented at the Oppenheimer Movers in Rare Disease Summit in New York City on 11 December 2025, with Co‑Founder, CEO and Chairman Shankar Musunuri outlining the company’s rare ...
WAFB

Doctors say narrative changing on hormone replacement therapy for menopause

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - For years, many providers stopped using hormone replacement therapy for menopause after a 2002 study showed there was a risk of developing cancer. Now local doctors say the ...
CNN

A discredited therapy for gay and trans youth is at the center of a Supreme Court case. Here’s what to know

The US Supreme Court heard a case Tuesday that will determine whether a Colorado law that prohibits licensed mental health professionals from providing conversion “therapy” to minors is constitutional ...
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A Book Shows How Narrative Therapy Gives Meaning to Life

Around the world, growing populations of older adults need social care. Aging is typically associated with steady physical and cognitive decline; the practice of narrative therapy, by contrast, ...
Forbes

Shift Your Money Story To Stop Old Financial Patterns And Build Wealth

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joyce Marter covers mental health, financial mindset and leadership. During these times of economic uncertainty, it is common for ...
Frontiers

Benefits and barriers associated with using cognitive–behavioral therapy to treat obsessive–compulsive disorder: a narrative review

There is a growing need for widely available, cost-effective, and low-intensity treatments for OCD. Although cognitive–behavioral therapy (CBT) is often the first line of treatment, barriers to ...
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Study: More children turning to chatbots for friendship, therapy and more

For their report titled “Me, myself, and AI: Understanding and safeguarding children’s use of AI chatbots,” Internet Matters surveyed 1,000 adolescents and 2,000 parents across the United Kingdom. The ...
The New York Times

Unpacking the Past (and the Groceries) With Your Therapist

Mental health professionals are meeting clients in the kitchen to harness the therapeutic powers of cooking. Debra Borden, a therapist in New York, is part of a growing network of mental health ...
Yahoo

Gen Z is increasingly turning to ChatGPT for affordable on-demand therapy, but licensed therapists say there are dangers many aren’t considering

Some individuals are turning to AI chatbots as an outlet to replace talk therapy. Examples of people using ChatGPT for therapy have proliferated online, with some claiming that talking to a chatbot ...
Frontiers

Feasibility and preliminary effectiveness of a highly intensive inpatient treatment programme with Narrative Exposure Therapy for patients with posttraumatic stress disorder

1 ARQ Centrum’45, partner in ARQ National Psychotrauma Centre, Oegstgeest, Netherlands 2 Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam University Medical Centers Location University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam ...