Questions and reflections on Mental Health praxis in the digital age

Abstract

The constant changes anchored in the accelerated movement resulting from the advances of the so-called new information and communication technologies, call for the requirement to review our practices in the digital age, to incorporate a reading of complexity (Morin, 2005) that acts as a compass to the intervention devices, in light of the modifications that culture
traces on subjectivities and ties, on the singular location of the conditions necessary for the constitution of the psyche.In this way, artificial intelligence (AI) summons us, as professionals in the field of mental health, to new challenges, to the extent that subjectivity today cannot be thought of without its presence, given that it is established as a central coordinate, which is embedded in the daily lives of girls, boys and adolescents. This paper aims to encompass some of the effects in order to locate either the novelties it introducesinto subjectivity, or the exacerbation of sufferings already defined in the presentations of
boys, girls and adolescents. Based on what was expressed, we then share a series of ongoing questions and reflections, open to future re-readings, on this topic.