Facing A.I. in the Consulting Room
Presented by Dr. Amy Levy
2 CEUs
Dates: October 2 2026
Time: 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM EST
Fee: $200; $100 for candidates
Abstract
Many clinicians are taking notice of a new presence in the consulting room and in their professional lives. AI has entered the psychoanalytic field with patients, clinicians, educators, and students already experimenting with using these new agents in their clinical work and learning. Whether driven by curiosity, excitement, fear, or some combination, many are eager for help in framing and grounding their psychoanalytic practices and identities as this new entity infiltrates our field.
Chair of APsA’s President’s Commission on Artificial Intelligence, and author of the 2027 book, The New Other: Alien Intelligence and the Innovation Drive, Dr. Amy Levy will bring her expertise to bear on the subject. She will discuss the myriad ways AI is showing up in clinical practice, propose psychoanalytic conceptualizations of this occurrence, and offer helpful potential responses to AI’s growing presence. Questions she will address include: should clinicians incorporate AI case formulations or interpretive recommendations into their clinical work? How should we respond to patients who supplement human analytic work with AI sessions? To what extent should psychoanalysts use AI in writing, teaching, and presenting? And, what is being lost and gained by allowing AI into the clinical situation? allowing love itself to restore relational capacity and foster psychological growth.
Learning Objectives
Discuss 2 losses when patients rely on AI in the clinical situation.
Describe three ways AI can be used in the clinical situation.
Identify a way to respond to patients who use AI as a supplement to treatment that maintains psychoanalytic values.
