1st Edition
Chatbot Therapy A Critical Analysis of AI Mental Health Treatment
By Eoin Fullam
Copyright 2026
174 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
174 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
174 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Chatbot Therapy: A Critical Analysis of AI Mental Health Treatment examines automated mental health therapy in the form of therapy chatbots, taking a critical analysis of this new technology.
Drawing on historical and emerging scholarship on critical theory, science and technology studies, and critical psychology, this project investigates the social life of mental health therapy... Read more
Series editor preface
Introduction
1. Computational Conditions
2. Automated Conversations
3. Treatment Methods
4. Economic Imperatives
5. Conclusion: Invention is the Mother of Necessity
Biography
Eoin Fullam is a lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. His research is interdisciplinary, drawing on critical theory, science and technology studies, and psychoanalytic theory to analyse contemporary technical society and mental health. Eoin’s primary research concern is to explore the ways in which human subjectivity is constructed, produced, or influenced by technological interventions.
