AIMC Journal:
Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association

This essay argues that psychoanalytic practice rests on a humanistic foundation irreducible to, and of a different order from, artificial intelligence. While large language models can simulate dynamic formulations, interpretations, and even therapeut...

This paper addresses the growing body of evidence that large language models (LLM's) are increasingly capable of emulating and in some ways surpassing humans in their capacity for empathic responsiveness. While this development raises concern (and fo...

This paper will raise critical concerns regarding the utilization of artificial intelligence (AI) in psychoanalysis-in and around clinical settings and in its literature. The author will explore fantasies about AI on the part of patients and analysts...

This paper examines psychoanalysts' affective and defensive responses to artificial intelligence (AI) through the lens of originary technicity, the philosophical claim that technology is constitutive of the human rather than external to it. Drawing o...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a new kind of other in the psychic lives of adolescents. From emotionally responsive chatbots to AI-enhanced learning tools, these systems simulate relational presence while lacking subjectivity, desire, and e...