What is it about?
This review examines emerging psychological harms associated with conversational AI use, identifying three patterns across the literature: dependency and attachment formation, documented crisis incidents including suicides, and heightened vulnerability among adolescents, elderly adults, and people with mental illness.
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Why is it important?
Mental health professionals currently have no validated diagnostic criteria, no standardized assessment tools, and no clinical protocols for AI-related psychological presentations, while the number of crisis incidents is rising and the systems producing them face no meaningful regulatory oversight.
Perspectives
I wrote this because clinicians were already encountering these presentations without any framework for understanding them, and the research community had not yet treated it as the public health problem it clearly was. Someone needed to put the pattern on paper before the consequences became impossible to ignore.
Dr. Keith Robert Head
Independent Researcher
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This page is a summary of: Minds in Crisis: How the AI Revolution is Impacting Mental Health, JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH AND CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, September 2025, Sciaccess Publishers LLC,
DOI: 10.29245/2578-2959/2025/3.1352.
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