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Kat Henry, Lecturer and Researcher, Theatre Department, Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne

Eliza, a theatrical thriller about the first chatbot, feels emotionally distant. That’s the point

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During talk therapy one day, my psychologist said to me, “Look, the human mind is a mystery. We may never fully work things out.” For me, it was at once shocking that a psychologist was so candid about the limitations of their profession, and liberating. It allowed me to relax into the enigma of being human – the endless contradictions, complexities and obscured insights within us all.

I began to see talk therapy as an ongoing curiosity about our interiors, rather than heading toward a fixed endpoint.

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