Cyberpsychiatry is a new approach to understanding the impact of digital information space on the mental health of individuals and society. Report № 1
The article analyzes the influence of the factor of total network digitalization on the psyche of an individual and on the mental health of society as a whole. Today, two main concepts have been proposed: the concept of dependence on digital technologies and the concept of their excessive use. Howev...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Russian |
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Federal State Budget Scientific Institution National Medical Research Center for Psychiatry and Neurology n.a. V.M. Bekhterev Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
2025-03-01
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| Series: | Обозрение психиатрии и медицинской психологии имени В.М. Бехтерева |
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| Online Access: | https://www.bekhterevreview.com/jour/article/view/1110 |
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| Summary: | The article analyzes the influence of the factor of total network digitalization on the psyche of an individual and on the mental health of society as a whole. Today, two main concepts have been proposed: the concept of dependence on digital technologies and the concept of their excessive use. However, none of them provides a clear interpretation of the etiopathogenesis of disorders observed when using digital devices. The lack of a consensus approach among world psychiatry to the problem of the impact of the Internet on human mental health entails a number of negative socio-medical consequences. The article, based on a detailed analysis, shows that the Internet has a number of institutional properties that increase the anxiety and neuroticism of people immersed in the virtual reality of the Network. Among others, the phenomenon of depersonalization effect generated by the Network is considered. The problem of information business as a factor of increased social neuroticism is also touched upon. The complex of stress factors created by the Internet and negatively affecting public mental health is assessed as constant anomie, which is a consequence of information chaos generated by the post-information era and which has become especially socio-psychologically virulent in the «network era». |
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| ISSN: | 2313-7053 2713-055X |