The American Psychological Association (APA) has a very small problem, it’s called AI therapy. But APA has a big problem, it’s called how the mind works Mental health is exactly what it is, in the brain.
There is nothing better than explaining to the APA society how the human mind works, especially by the components and processes of the brain, even theoretically defining it.
D What did you write?“Our mission is to promote the advancement, communication, and application of psychological science and knowledge to benefit society and improve lives.”
“We Do It: Using Psychology to Make a Positive Impact on Critical Social Issues.”
“Improving public understanding of, respect for, and use of psychology.”
“Preparing the discipline and profession of psychology for the future.”
“Strengthening APA’s Position as an Authoritative Voice for Psychology.”
What is emotion? What is the feeling? What a sad episode When is a different from not? What are the most important components of the cranium for mental health? Jump from labels and descriptions to mechanical demonstrations or explanations?
AI therapy
There is a June, 2026 report from the APA, Patients are bringing AI into therapyNoting that, “As millions of people engage with generative AI to support their work, their personal lives, and their mental health, the APA surveyed more than 1,200 licensed psychologists in the United States who are directly involved in patient or client care to understand how this reliance on AI is impacting mental health care.”
“The survey found that most psychologists (77%) have spoken to patients who have used AI for support, engagement or other reasons.”
“While some psychologists reported their patients using chatbots in unhealthy ways, more than a third (36%) said they had noticed their patients developing a level of dependence on a chatbot, and 15% had talked about or noticed their patients developing distorted thinking or delusions related to a chatbot.”
The APA has a health advisory of November, 2025, Use of generative AI chatbots and wellness applications for mental healthWith the following recommendations, “Do not rely on GenAI chatbots and wellness apps to provide psychotherapy or psychological treatment. Prevent unhealthy relationships and dependencies between users and Gen AI chatbots and apps. Prioritize privacy and protect user data.”
“Protect users from misrepresentation, misinformation, algorithmic bias and illusory effectiveness. Create specific safeguards for children, adolescents and vulnerable populations. Implement comprehensive AI and digital literacy education. Prioritize access to and funding for rigorous scientific research on GenAI wellness chatbots.”
Electrochemical Psychiatry
APA should consider that as AI chatbots come on the scene, with the ability to fulfill aspects of therapy including cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), commitment therapy (ACT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and psychodynamic therapies, it is not possible to recommend and effectively describe AI therapy alone, against AI therapy.
Simply put, AI can do a lot, which looks like therapists, which can make users accept AI results. So, how can people be sure that human therapists are better, if some have reported positive results with AI?
The APA cautions against using AI for therapy, saying there is a difference between human therapists and chatbots, but Makes clear what happens in users’ minds?
How good is a human therapist? This means that the signals in the therapist’s mind can at least conceptually be displayed, and the display can show how the therapist makes better guesses than the AI — which doesn’t absorb the amount of undisclosed information.
This is possible if the APA evolves into Electrochemical Psychiatry. Simply put, electrical and chemical signals are known to be active, as neurons function in the brain, for human life and experience.
This means that it is possible to explain how the human mind works using electrical and chemical signals. This leap, even conceptually, could give the APA a new mission to make progress, even as mental disorders and addictions continue to proliferate and become confusing.
APA’s annual conference takes place August 6 – 8, 2026. There is no better priority than figuring out what the human mind is or redefining mental health.
For example, mental health, conceptually, is defined as a zone — within certain averages, at every moment of the collection of all electrical and chemical signals, with their interactions and characteristics, in sets, clusters of neurons, throughout the central and peripheral nervous system — with a functional balance of mind and experience, for social and occupational materiality.
A mental illness is a distraction from the alignment of these signals.
Impulses are sets of signals, with a certain angular displacement that bends (so much) that they are sometimes more entangled than memory sets.
Feelings are similar to emotions in the Angular configuration architecture, except that they have a sequence or path of physical action. Simply, like pain, the brain’s interpretation is a momentary shift in one direction, just like cold, heat or thirst, but once it is alleviated or resolved by an input, conceptually there is a reversal. This physical basis sometimes makes it easier to resolve feelings than emotions.
This can be quickly accelerated by using postulation in Conceptual biomarkers and theoretical biological factors for psychological and intelligence nosology.
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