Daniel A. Bochner, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

EmotionAI aims to humanize the perception and responsiveness of computer/user interfaces by introducing and integrating a comprehensive and systematic understanding of human emotions within the greater Artificial General Intelligence project. The emotional component of the collective AI project is currently hindered by the lack of a systematic, cohesive, and functional model of human emotions. AI learning has primarily been based on language communication analysis, and productive pattern assessment, based on neural nets. Human emotions, however, have developed from animal instincts, survival patterns, and communal necessities, far more complex than “learning” through repetitive recognition. Human emotions respond to a multitude of inputs in the here and now, including all the senses, combined with past experiences, and combined with all the essentials of what it means to be human which, in turn, predispose a person toward certain proclivities and tendencies, and which shape a person’s anticipation of future events, and propel a person forward toward goals, motivations, and action/inaction. For AI to effectively develop a simulation of human emotions, a comprehensive system of the emotions from which AI can “learn” will be necessary. Dr. Bochner’s conceptualization of the human emotional system, the Relational Systems Model, offers the only known systematic model of emotions that truly reflects the great complexity of what it means to be human. The Relational Systems Model can therefore provide the knowledge base which enables AI to evolve into organically experienced interfaces that mimic human-quality personalities. Obviously, great strides in Artificial General Intelligence are attained on a daily basis, but AI will not be able to simulate human personality without referencing a cohesive and systematic model as a knowledge base. The Relational Systems Model does truly reflect the great complexity of human emotions, and thus the model provides that knowledge base.

San Francisco Bay Area

LifeStance Health is a nation-wide mental health provider.

Savannah, Georgia, United States

In The Emotional Toolbox, Dr. Bochner provides a fresh and accessible perspective on the most common issues of psychotherapy and mental health. This book is a Manual for Mental Health and is organized like an owner’s manual for the relational world, which Dr. Bochner calls the “great life machine.” Unlike other manuals that focus on all brand-new systems functioning perfectly, The Emotional Toolbox recognizes the various types of likely breakdown that occur over time and focuses intently on helping a person bring themselves to full potential. In essence, The Emotional Toolbox is the Introduction to Psychology people truly want and need, even though it does not include the typical Psych 101 articles on rats in mazes, pellet-pecking pigeons, cat-zapping contraptions, or old tired theories no longer useful in modern day psychotherapy. Instead, in this Manual the reader discovers expert knowledge regarding the intricacies of human interaction, the vagaries of couple and family life, and the ins and outs of mental health diagnosis. Dr. Bochner’s Emotional Toolbox addresses the most commonly encountered issues of life, explains emotional difficulties and interpersonal communication at a level where the reader can feel personally understood, and offers solutions and even redemption where people struggle most.

Savannah, Georgia, United States

In this invaluable text, Daniel A. Bochner, Ph.D., demonstrates how the use of self in family therapy involves the therapist becoming part of the therapist-family system. In this pursuit, psychoanalytic and systems concepts are integrated, and the effects of the therapist countertransference on the interpersonal system are explored. The approach described emphasizes authenticity and spontaneity in the therapist, while offering theoretical understanding to the therapeutic process. This book demonstrates the benefits of systems theory to psychoanalytic thinking and vice versa, while developing a new integrated model (the Relational Systems Theory) that is a systematic “unification theory,” which is simpler and more user-friendly than either of those theories alone.

Savannah, Georgia

Multidisciplinary private practice in Savannah, Ga

Pensacola, Florida, United States

Active Duty Navy Psychologist

Ph.D., Psychology, Psychotherapy

B.S., Psychology