Chatbot Therapy: A Critical Analysis of AI Mental Health Treatment

This book 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 & technology studies and critical psychology, this project investigates the social life of mental health therapy applications.

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 & 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.