治愈：人类与机器在心理治疗新前沿的边界

This is the story of two humans— and their bots—on the very edge of therapy’s new frontier. by Alex Mar --- Q UENTIN AWOKE ON A THIN MATTRESS, beneath a collection of scavenged blan- kets, in an abandoned RV deep in the Ari- zona desert. A young pit bull lay curled up beside them in the mid-morning light. Sliding from their bed over to the driver’s seat, Quentin pulled an American Spirit cigarette from a pack on the dashboard beside a small bowl of crystals. Outside the RV’s dusted-over windshield stretched an expanse of reddish clay earth, a bright cloud- less sky, and a few scattered and broken housing structures visible between them and the horizon line. …