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"If we're going to be consistent and advocate freedom of speech we have to advocate freedom of encrypted speech too. The genie is out of the bottle, cryptologically."
- Neal Stephenson

Machine Psychologist  
  A computer that understands and uses its knowledge of human psychology to benefit human users.  

This seems like a fairly early reference to the idea of a machine psychologist.

"Dead though they are, the machines aren't ignorant of human psychology - far from it. They know very well that some students respond better to reward than punishment, and that others have to be driven by fear. The second kind is usually the less intelligent, and they know that, too; how could they not know it after so many generations of experience. You're lucky they've put you in the first category."
From Cities in Flight, by James Blish.
Published by Avon in 1957
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The machines referred to here are of course the city fathers, an early sfnal description of artificial intelligence.

The machines also diagnose specific problems:

The sister, the City Fathers tell us now, is borderline psychotic, which is why she never made citizenship herself...

Compare this device with the robot psyche tester from Colony (1953) by Philip K. Dick, Sigrid von Shrink from Gateway (1970) by Frederik Pohl, the mechanotherapist from Bad Medicine (a 1956 Robert Sheckley story), Dr. Smile, from Dick's 1964 novel The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.

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