Rôle et risques de l'informatique en psychiatrie

The intense deployment of computers and artificial intelligence in modern society encourages the renewal of the psychiatric clinic, but also warns against the risks of such an orientation. The clinician is then encouraged to change his perspective in order to consider the internal dynamics of mental disorders. The functionalities of a computer system integrating a great deal of knowledge also make it possible to better understand the gradual discrepancy of the experience which is established by its submission to the grip of digital. Sociocultural disruptions can thus arise, making the patient and the observer dependent on the computer system, thereby complicating the analysis and treatment of mental disorders. Safeguard measures are therefore to be considered. Awareness of these risks is already essential; it recalls the technical and psychological disadvantages that can alter the freedom, the creativity and the ethics of the person. On the other hand, given the architectonics of natural and artificial systems, the organizational strength of the natural system and its orientation have a crucial role and imply the need for their reactivation.