Michael Crichton, psychology, and AI

Full Page Ad in Conde Nast’s Traveler magazine, March 1988 (via) I was talking to my friend Jamie about therapy a few months ago and he recommended the “Psychiatry” chapter in Michael Crichton’s 1988 memoir, Travels. Around 1971, Crichton was separated from his wife. She suggested he see a psychiatrist. “I refused,” Crichton wrote. “I didn’t think psychiatry did any good for people. It was just a lot of hand-holding.” Then his wife gave him the name of a prominent psychiatrist at UCLA but suggested that the doctor was probably too busy to see him. Crichton took offense at the idea he wasn’t important enough to be seen, and made an appointment. (It’s a very funny chapter.) “I now found myself in a peculiar situation,” he wrote. “I didn’t really believe in psychiatry, I didn’t want to see a psychiatrist, and I didn’t think there was anything wrong with me, but I was challenged to present myself to Dr. Norton in a fascinating way.” After a fine performance, Dr. Norton took Crichton on as…

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