Family-systems therapy platform to facilitate real-family differentiation

@nosilverv Well, yes, amazing, perhaps. But let’s not get carried away. People keep trying to substitute family systems with something else. First it was therapy groups. Then it was psychedelics. Now it’s ChatGPT. It’s always the same move: avoid the crucible of real human relationships and hope for emotional growth in a vacuum. It won’t happen. If the chatbot is providing “unconditional positive regard,” that’s fine. So did Mr. Rogers. But Rogers didn’t claim to differentiate your self from your family system, and neither does ChatGPT. What it might do, at best, is stabilize your anxiety for a time. But that’s a far cry from differentiation. And no, a temporary boost in logical coherence or self-narrative consistency does not count as “updating your internal operating system.” That’s like repainting rust. It’ll look better. But the rust will still eat through the metal. If you want to work on the self, go to the source: the family unit. That’s where the emotional triangles live. That’s where you were formed. That’s where you must return. ChatGPT as recursive love-object is cute, even clever. But it boils down to offloading real work onto machines, avoiding discomfort, and labeling the whole thing “growth.” Don’t be fooled. Differentiation is hard. It’s long. And no algorithm will do it for you. As Murray Bowen would say: “It’s always tempting to find a shortcut. But the nervous system still belongs to the triangles it was born into.”