doctor \- interact with a psychoanalyst
is a lisp-language version of the legendary ELIZA program
of Joseph Weizenbaum. This script "simulates" a Rogerian
Type in lower case, and when you get tired or bored, type
your interrupt character (either control-C or Rubout).
Remember to type two carriage returns when you want it to answer.
In order to run this you must have a Franz Lisp system in /usr/ucb/lisp.
Adapted for Lisp by Jon L White, moved to Franz by John Foderaro,
from an original script by Joseph Weizenbaum.
It shows how impressed people were willing to be way back then.
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