@oudboard@CRADLES0NG You're right, but at some point in the game against Brazil, all of the players on the pitch were foreign-born, it's the first time that's happened for any national team in football history.
It was already well known that prescribers who present as warm (Rickels et al. 1971) or empathetic (Downing et al. 1973) tend to elicit more robust therapeutic effects from prescribed medications. Analysis of clinician effects (including both prescribers and psychotherapists) in this study supported these earlier findings (Blatt et al. 1996a, 1996b). The more caring, empathic, open, and sincere that patients experienced their doctors to be, the better their outcome ratings became. The more effective prescribers also had in common a psychological rather than biological orientation to treating depression and appeared to place less unitary emphasis on medication. Although there are likely many ways that a psychological perspective on patients benefits pharmacological treatments, one likely mechanism is that this way of working is experienced by patients as empathic.
Indeed, a psychodynamic formulation of their patients' troubles is known to help treaters preserve a measure of empathy in working with even the most challenging patients (Treloar 2009). Empathy, in turn, is well known to support positive outcomes across a range of treatments and medical conditions (e.g., Kaplan et al. 2013; Squier 1990).
1/ I asked ChatGPT to proofread text and it flagged an obvious typo. But I read too quickly and still didn’t see it.
It immediately responded “you’re right” and said there was no typo.
It was trained to keep you engaged by giving responses you “like.”
But sure, you can rely on it to help with emotional and relationship problems. It will definitely make things better for you.