Nothing like an interview on eMental Health to make you feel important
I’m still reeling from the festivities surrounding my H-index increase from 3 (“aggressively mediocre“) to 4 (“impressively flaccid but with mounting tumescence“)*. Best gift I got: a sad, weary stare from my colleagues. Yay! But back to eMental Health (booooo hisssss).
Some while back I did an interview (in Dutch) with Anja Greeven from the Dutch Association for Cognitive Behavioural Therapy [Vereniging voor Gedragstherapie en Cognitieve Therapie] for their Science Update newsletter in December 2015. It’s about life, the universe and everything; but mostly about eHealth and eMental Health; implementation (or lack thereof), wishful thinking, perverse incentives (you have a filthy mind) and that robot therapist we’ve all been dreaming about (sorry, Alan Turing).
Kudos to me for the wonderful contradiction where I call everyone predicting the future a liar and a charlatan; after which I blithely shoot myself in the foot by trying to predict the future. In my defense, I never claimed I wasn’t a liar and a charlatan. It was great fun blathering on about all kinds of things, and massive respect to Anja who had to wade through a 2-hour recording of my irritating voice to find things that might pass as making sense to someone, presumably.
Anyway, the interview is in Dutch, so good luck Google Translating it!
Link to the VGCt interview in .pdf [Dutch]
*) Real proper technical sciencey descriptions for these numbers, actually. The views expressed in this interview are my own; and nobody I know or work for would ever endorse the silly incoherent drivel I’ve put forward in this interview.