Publication Name	World Journal of Psychiatry
Manuscript ID	125040
DOI	10.5498/wjp.125040
Country	South Korea

Category	Psychiatry
Manuscript Type	Review
Article Title	Artificial intelligence-assisted art therapy in digital psychiatry: Clinical applications, mechanisms, and ethics
Manuscript Source	Invited Manuscript
All Author List	Ke Meng, Mingzhi Hou and Heeju Chae
Funding Agency and Grant Number
Corresponding Author	Heeju Chae, Professor, Department of Home Economics Education, Kangwon National University, 209-#204, Kangwondaehak-gil, Chuncheon 24341, Kangwon-do, South Korea. hjchae@kangwon.ac.kr
Key Words	Artificial intelligence; Art therapy; Digital psychiatry; Mental health; Generative artificial intelligence; Chatbots; Virtual reality; Ethics
Core Tip	Artificial intelligence-assisted art therapy should be treated as a supervised digital-creative intervention, not as stand-alone artificial intelligence psychotherapy. Direct patient-level evidence is preliminary, limited, and heterogeneous and clinician-perspective evidence is limited; most proposed uses rely on conceptual or transferable evidence from art therapy, chatbot research, digital psychiatry, immersive technologies, affective computing, and health-care artificial intelligence ethics. Patients should remain authors of meaning, therapists should remain clinically accountable, and artificial intelligence systems should remain bounded tools inside documented care pathways. These proposals require prospective evaluation and do not establish readiness for routine clinical deployment.
Citation	Meng K, Hou M, Chae H. Artificial intelligence-assisted art therapy in digital psychiatry: Clinical applications, mechanisms, and ethics. World J Psychiatry 2026; In press DOI: https://doi.org/10.5498/wjp.125040
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Received	2026-07-07 07:31
Peer-Review Started	2026-07-07 07:32
First Decision by Editorial Office Director
Return for Revision	2026-09-01 01:47
Revised	2026-09-03 08:39
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Second Decision by Editor	2026-10-29 07:08
Second Decision by Editor-in-Chief
Final Decision by Editorial Office Director	2026-10-29 10:27
Articles in Press	2026-10-29 10:27
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