This paper proposes using ChatGPT, an innovative technology with various applications, as an assistant for psychotherapy. ChatGPT can serve as a patient information collector, a companion for patients in between therapy sessions, and an organizer of gathered information for therapists to facilitate treatment processes. The research identifies five research questions and discovers useful prompts for fine-tuning the assistant, which shows that ChatGPT can participate in positive conversations, listen attentively, offer validation and potential coping strategies without providing explicit medical advice, and help therapists discover new insights from multiple conversations with the same patient. Using ChatGPT as an assistant for psychotherapy poses several challenges that need to be addressed, including technical as well as human-centric challenges which are discussed.

翻译：本文提出将ChatGPT（一种具有多种应用场景的创新技术）作为心理治疗的辅助工具。ChatGPT可充当患者信息采集员、两次治疗间歇期的患者陪伴者，以及为治疗师整理已收集信息以促进治疗流程的组织者。研究确定了五项研究课题，并发现了用于优化该助手的有效提示词，表明ChatGPT能够参与积极对话、专注倾听、提供认同感及潜在应对策略（但不提供明确医疗建议），并能帮助治疗师从与同一患者的多次对话中发现新见解。将ChatGPT用作心理治疗助手存在若干需应对的挑战，包括技术层面与以人为中心的挑战，本文对此进行了讨论。