Key points

To benefit from therapy, people must have a relationship with their therapist.

A relationship is comprised of the meeting of the conscious and unconscious parts of two psyches.

Relationships are the container, scaffolding, and process of growth itself. Conflict is a crucial experience.

Therapists navigate multiple roles simultaneously.

We are living in tumultuous times. The messages of books like Together by Vivek Murthy are getting swallowed by the loud voices of billionaires and TV personalities insisting that empathy is the downfall of society (for a powerful counterpoint, check out Luke Kemp’s Goliath’s Curse ). It is no surprise, then, that the same tech giants (of the “empathy is bad” kind) and many others are pondering just how far AI can go in replacing humans.

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