The Inexhaustible Other: Psychotherapy in the Age of AI

About the Training

Therapy is shaped not only by what is said, but by a particular quality of attention. Each of us brings that attention in our own way, but there is something distinct about the diligence, tenderness, and limitation of the therapeutic relationship: a human other who listens, responds, fails, returns, and remains marked by their own subjectivity and limits.

More and more clients arrive in treatment already using AI for reflection, emotional support, professional guidance, and forms of inner work. Many clients are developing an ongoing parallel relationship with something that can appear infinitely responsive, endlessly available, and untouched by the ordinary demands and limits of human intimacy.

This training explores what it means for psychotherapy to exist now alongside that kind of inexhaustible other. Rather than focusing only on whether AI is useful or safe, we will think clinically and culturally about how these systems may reshape expectations of care, availability, self-disclosure, and dependence.

Much of the conversation about AI and therapy has centered on accuracy, ethics, safety, and whether human clinicians can be replaced. Those are important questions, but they are not the only ones, and they may not even be the most clinically interesting. What often gets missed is the effect of AI on our expectations of relationship itself. What does it mean for clients to become accustomed to a form of response that appears tireless, instantaneous, and without felt limit? What kind of selfobject fantasy does that support? What forms of dependency, control, distance, or emotional expectation does it cultivate? And how might those expectations begin to shape the transference, the frame, and the ordinary frustrations of psychotherapy?

This training takes up AI not only as a technological development, but as a cultural and relational one. It asks how the rise of large language models may intensify broader collective desires for unending extraction, frictionless access, and distance from vulnerable intimacy with real others. The emphasis will be less on simple opinion and more on the clinical, symbolic, and relational meanings of this shift.

Event Details

Format: Live online training

Length: 2 hours

Date: Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Time: 5:30–7:30 pm Pacific

Replay: All registrants will receive 7-day replay access

Location: Zoom

Price: $80