Psychotherapy in interaction with Technology : Proposal of a new investigation area for CogInfoCom

Abstract

Recently, the increasingly rapid development of new technologies is leading to a revolution in the field of psychotherapy. We are in front of the spread of a wide range of online mental health services. The parallel development of communication technologies, signal processing and machine learning has led us to a serious reflection on how these technologies can be used to improve the quality of psychotherapy online. Thanks to the mediation of technological systems, during the therapy session we can use the wide range of computational neuroscience and artificial intelligence tools. We can obtain the uniquely and non-subjective recognition of a specific psychopathological event and standardizing the effectiveness of the applied technique can give scientific form to therapeutic practice in following five areas: CogInfoCom and narrative mind; CogInfoCom and affectivity; CogInfoCom and body; CogInfoCom and intersubjectivity; CogInfoCom and ethical process. Therefore, we propose, within the broad theme of intra cognitive communication of the Cognitive InfoCommunication project, the opening of a specific field of investigation that allows the development of models, methods and technologies for the practice of psychotherapy.