Therapist
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AI therapy fills a critical gap for off-hours 4 AM panic attacks
“And one of the things that's really a bummer with therapy is if I have a panic attack, it doesn't happen at two o'clock on a Thursday, two o'clock on a Thursday. It happens at four fucking in the morning. And my therapist, I don't care how much money you have,…”
Bernstein: Couples therapy works best with three separate therapists
“Typically it's best to have It's not that you can't, but I think it's best to have your own therapist, they have their own therapist, then you have a couple's work.”
Bernstein: AI has given better advice than some human therapists
“I think that there's been many instances where AI has given me better advice than some therapists have had.”
Manson: People are far more honest with AI than human therapists
“Here's the funny thing that we've actually noticed with a lot of our early users as well is that like people are way more honest with an AI than they are with a therapist.”
Sexton: People Lie to Therapists but Not to Divorce Lawyers
“Like people lie to their therapists all the time. They don't lie to their divorce lawyer. Like there's absolutely no profit in lying to your divorce lawyer.”
Weisbrot: Long-term therapy persists due to therapists' greed or sheer incompetence
“Either the therapist doesn't want them to solve the problem because it's money, it's revenue, or the therapist doesn't know how to actually engage the person in a way that gets them to come to a resolution on their own.”
Johnson: Therapy teaching couples to 'fight fair' is completely irrelevant rubbish
“And therapists focus on conflict, teach you how to fight fair, and fighting fair is rubbish, ok, it's like, it's irrelevant, it's, you know, it's, so, you know and we don't look at what's going on underneath, which is lack of emotional connection”
Cahn: There are now more than 10,000 people for every practicing therapist
“There are now more than 10,000 people for every therapist.”
Cahn: Users open up faster with AI therapy than human therapists
“Compared to a human it might take 10 conversations with your therapist before you tell them what you're actually there for, because you're like judging them. You're trying to figure things out. With Ash, people move way faster. That's been really fascinating. …”
Cahn: Therapists actively recommend Ash AI and use it themselves
“We have a huge number of therapists who refer their patients. I mean, we get so many people who use the app who say, I found this because my therapist recommended it. We have so many therapists that tell us they use it because they don't have someone good enou…”
Tytunovich: People will trust AI agents for almost anything except therapy
“Our generation at least is not going to trust an AI agent, even if it looks and behaves and like a real human being to be our therapist, our psychologist. But I think short of that, pretty much everything would be able, would be enabled by AI agent and replace…”
Blakney: Most Successful CEOs See Therapists but Under 1% Discuss It
“I would be surprised if most successful entrepreneurs or business or CEOs have not seen a therapist or a psychiatrist at some point in their life. I'd be shocked. But I, the number of people who actually talk about it is probably like a fraction of one percent…”
Pande: Fee-for-service healthcare financially disincentivizes curing patients quickly
“If you know, you're just providing services, You may even want to be a therapist as an annuity. You know, the therapist is there for a long time. Curing someone quickly may not be what you're financially incentive for”
Kamath: Nine out of ten therapists are terrible
“The problem with therapy is nine out of 10 are f***ing horrible.”
Johns: Primary therapists often function as routers to specialized wellness practitioners
“They're not gonna have all the answers, but they can act like a router, where as they're helping you understand yourself, and they're really understanding you, they're thinking about, okay, Who might this person also benefit from speaking with? You know, let, …”
Johns: Clients need therapists who match or exceed their own intelligence
“You're going to want a therapist that is at least as intelligent, if not more intelligent than you, because I think part of that openness to learning from them and to feeling somewhat comfortable, but also feeling inspired and kind of looking forward to it as …”
Shallard: Specialized therapists fundamentally misunderstand the realities of entrepreneurship
“Most people who specialize in therapy, they, they're just, they couldn't be further away from the coalface of entrepreneurship and they just don't get it. There's this gulf of misunderstanding.”
Kornfield required therapy clients to sit in silence before sessions
“For a few decades, I also worked as a therapist, and one of the things that I did Was have people sit quietly with me for five minutes before we launched into our therapeutic conversation.”
Amoruso: Therapists Usually Lack Understanding of Executive Leadership Pressures
“Therapists don't have the understanding of what leadership really looks like often in a way that consumes our lives as much as our time with our families or our friends and the other things we might go to a therapist about, but they can't speak to you at all.”
Dunn: Corporations are the only viable funding source for mental healthcare
“We know that psychiatrists and therapists are not going to voluntarily reduce their rates.
We know they're not going to voluntarily join and affiliate with insurance companies that takes down their after tax.
And we know that insurance companies aren't going t…”