The potential use of artificial intelligence in the therapy of borderline personality disorder

This paper explores the possibility of AI-based addendum therapy for borderline personality disorder, its potential advantages and limitations. Identity disturbance in this condition is strongly connected to self-narratives, which manifest excessive incoherence, causal gaps, dysfunctional beliefs, and diminished self-attributions of agency. Different types of therapy aim at boosting self-knowledge through self-narratives in BPD. The suggestion of this paper is that human-to-human therapy could be complemented by AI assistance holding out the promise of making patients' self-narratives more coherent through improving the accuracy of their self-assessments, reflection on their emotions, and understanding their relationships with others. Theoretical and pragmatic arguments are presented in favour of this idea, and certain technical solutions are suggested to implement it.

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This paper examines the potential of AI-based addendum therapy for borderline personality disorder, suggesting that AI assistance could help enhance self-narratives coherence by improving accuracy of self-assessments and reflection on emotions, complementing human-to-human therapy. Theoretical and pragmatic arguments are presented in favor of this idea, along with suggested technical solutions for implementation.