MIND : Towards Immersive Psychological Healing with Multi-Agent Inner Dialogue (2025)

Abstract: Mental health issues are worsening in today’s competitive society, such as depression and anxiety. Traditional healings like counseling and chatbots fail to engage effectively, they often provide generic responses lacking emotional depth. Although large language models (LLMs) have the potential to create more human-like interactions, they still struggle to capture subtle emotions. This requires LLMs to be equipped with human-like adaptability and warmth. To fill this gap, we propose the MIND ( M ulti-agent IN ner D ialogue), a novel paradigm that provides more immersive psychological healing environments. Considering the strong generative and role-playing ability of LLM agents, we predefine an interactive healing framework and assign LLM agents different roles within the framework to engage in interactive inner dialogues with users, thereby providing an immersive healing experience. We conduct extensive human experiments in various real-world healing dimensions, and find that MIND provides a more user-friendly experience than traditional paradigms. This demonstrates that MIND effectively leverages the significant potential of LLMs in psychological healing.

## introduction mental health issues are worsening in today's competitive society, with rising cases of disorders like depression @xcite . this lead to a growing market for psychological healing. traditional healing paradigms like cognitive behavioral therapy @xcite and dialectical behavior therapy @xcite are widely used but rely on face-to-face interactions, making them time-consuming and costly @xcite that limits large-scale accessibility. ## conclusion in this study, we propose mind paradigm, a novel paradigm for psychological healing. our framework consists of four llm agents: trigger, devil, guide, and strategist. through iterative interactions between these agents and the player, the system comforts the player's "inner self" within a virtual scenario, thereby enhancing empathy and emotional resonance, reducing self-criticism, and fostering a stronger sense of self-identity. experimental results validate the significant potential of this paradigm, demonstrating an improved user experience compared to both traditional psychological counseling models and the prototype of our framework. our work provides a new perspective on gamified psychological healing and opens an innovative path for utilizing llm agents in therapeutic applications. we hope this research offers a fresh outlook on the intersection of llms and psychological healing, encouraging the public to pay greater attention to and improve their mental health.