COMPUTER PSYCHOTHERAPY
In the future emotionally troubled patients may be able to talk to computers instead of human psychologists.
The pacients received cognitive-behavioral therapy.
It attempts to teach patients to unlearn their pessimistic attitudes and substitute more positives and responses.
After six weeks of results of group
The patients who saw the human therapist had improved in comparison to the control group
The group he worked with the computer showed exactly the same improvement
36 patients suffering form mild tomoderate clinical depression were divided into 3 groups
first group received no treatment until the study was completed
Second group received individual sessions with a human terapist.
Third group worked with an interactive computer program.