From Craft to Labor: How Automation is Transforming the Practice of Psychotherapy.
Automation
Craft
ICBT
Psychotherapy
Risk
Journal
Culture, medicine and psychiatry
ISSN: 1573-076X
Titre abrégé: Cult Med Psychiatry
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 7707467
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Sep 2023
Sep 2023
Historique:
accepted:
03
02
2022
medline:
9
8
2023
pubmed:
23
2
2022
entrez:
22
2
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
I argue that the emergence of ICBT (Internet Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), a novel computerized psychotherapeutic intervention, heralds a shift in the status of psychotherapy from craft to labor. Psychotherapy, as is practiced commonly today, retains its status as craft; therapists in managed settings still work within what I term an opaque bubble, their work invisible and uninterrupted, even by their immediate supervisors and managers. The therapists participating in the Israeli Ministry of Health's course training the first cohort of 'online therapists' find themselves in uncharted territory: The automation of psychotherapy in the form of ICBT constitutes the profession's first major 'division of labor,' not only minimizing the role of the human therapists, but rendering their craft transparent and controllable in ways previously unimaginable. This shift is theorized as a transition from a workmanship of risk, to a workmanship of certainty, and the potential degradation of therapists' skills and status is explored.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35192170
doi: 10.1007/s11013-022-09771-8
pii: 10.1007/s11013-022-09771-8
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
605-625Informations de copyright
© 2022. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
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