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Opinion: Generative AI chatbots cause harm. Don’t call it 'therapy.'

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In the Peanuts comic strip, Lucy’s “Psychiatric Help” booth was one of my favorite running gags. Instead of a lemonade stand, the pint-sized entrepreneur doles out psychiatric advice to Charlie Brown for 5¢ from a booth that declares “The Doctor is In.” Her advice was often unhelpful but always fun: after all, a child claiming to offer psychiatric advice was part of Peanut’s charm.

Jessica Harvath is a licensed psychologist and lifelong St. Louisan. She currently works as a therapist in private practice in St. Louis County.

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