Psychiatry as information Science
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https://doi.org/10.25118/2763-9037.2013.v3.368Keywords:
information theory, psychiatry, law of requisite variety, psychotherapy, psychopharmacologyAbstract
The subjectivity of mental illness is better understood and managed (addressed) when discussing its complexity on the subject of
the information theory. The brain structure organizes itself evolutionarily as information processors at various levels of organismic
economy, culminating in the psychic life. Our mental life is thus a dynamic complex of informations that shape the Self. Disturbances
on the logic of the interaction of these informations or on its neural processors may bring psychic changes. Psychiatrists thus should to operate on two parallel pathways both for diagnosis and for therapy. Insofar as understanding how the psyche is informationally
generated and organized has been expanding, we are gaining important insights into the origins of mental illness and their interrelationships, creating more objective psychotherapies and more efficient treatment protocols.
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