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Conversational Self-Play for Discovering and Understanding Psychotherapy Approaches

Human-Computer Interaction 2025-07-14 v2 Multiagent Systems
Authors: Onno P Kampman , Michael Xing , Charmaine Lim , Ahmad Ishqi Jabir , Ryan Louie , Jimmy Lee , Robert JT Morris
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Abstract

This paper explores conversational self-play with LLMs as a scalable approach for analyzing and exploring psychotherapy approaches, evaluating how well AI-generated therapeutic dialogues align with established modalities.

Keywords

conversational self-play psychotherapy large language models therapeutic dialogue AI therapy

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@article{arxiv.2503.16521,
  title  = {Conversational Self-Play for Discovering and Understanding Psychotherapy Approaches},
  author = {Onno P Kampman and Michael Xing and Charmaine Lim and Ahmad Ishqi Jabir and Ryan Louie and Jimmy Lee and Robert JT Morris},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.16521},
  year   = {2025}
}

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