Virtual reality as a complementary therapy to sexual addiction treatment

in International Journal of Advanced Computer Science (in press), 3

Cyberdépendance? Une nouvelle forme d'addiction comportementale?

in Revue Médicale de Liège (2013), 68(5-6), 365-370

The speed of the development of new technologies of information and communication (I.C.T.) modified the mode of our intersubjective relations leading certain individuals to develop new forms of behavioral ... [more ▼]

The speed of the development of new technologies of information and communication (I.C.T.) modified the mode of our intersubjective relations leading certain individuals to develop new forms of behavioral dependence. If the majority of the users consume the Internet with moderation, 1 to 2% of the general population would suffer from “problematic use of the Internet” and /or of “Internet addiction”. These figures are to be taken with caution because of the lack of reliable epidemiologic data. If, beside the classical forms of addictions to the psychoactive substances, the concept of “addictions without drugs” is more and more the subject of scientific works, it is appropriate however not to call pathological all these new behaviours. We will approach in this article the clinical reality relating to the problematic or abusive use of new technologies with or without the Internet. We will then describe the possible therapeutic approaches that is ambulatory or in the form of day-hospitalization. Lastly, we will conclude with some recommendations to the attention of the relatives or the close friends. [less ▲]

LES PSYCHOTHERAPIES-2012

Learning material (2012)

CYBERDEPENDANCE : MYTHE OU REALITE ?

Conference (2012, October 27)

Le premier entretien

Learning material (2012)

Le thermalisme en pleine conscience

Conference (2011, December 02)

les troubles psychosomatiques

Learning material (2011)

Vires-tu L... ? Du bon usage de l'ordinateur à la cyberdépendance.

Scientific conference (2011, April 07)

Les nouvelles technologies de l’information et de la communication représentent indéniablement un progrès qui modifie depuis 30 ans nos rapports sociaux de manière considérable. Ados, parents ... [more ▼]

Les nouvelles technologies de l’information et de la communication représentent indéniablement un progrès qui modifie depuis 30 ans nos rapports sociaux de manière considérable. Ados, parents, professionnels, nous sommes tous confrontés à cette cyberconsommation. Le diagnostic de cyberdépendance reste toutefois contreversé et ne devrait pas être attribué aux adolescents. S’agit-il d’un problème sociétal de la post-modernité ou d’une nouvelle invention de psychiatre ? Il nous appartient désormais de nous adapter à cette mutation communicationnelle sans diaboliser pour autant l’usage d’Internet et des jeux vidéo. Certains usagers vont cependant développer une réelle addiction au point de mettre en péril leur vie sociale, affective et/ou professionnelle. Lors de stades plus avancés, l’activité cybernautique peut devenir envahissante au point d’entrainer le consommateur devant son écran 22h sur 24h ! La fuite dans le Virtuel virant ainsi de la relation humaine les composantes fondamentales de la communication interpersonnelle (le verbal, le non-verbal, le rapport au corporel) mérite alors d’être analysée et comprise si l’on veut rétablir un équilibre avec le Réel. Il convient dès lors de proposer des recommandations précises en terme d’éducation, de prévention et de traitement afin de prévenir la survenue de tels « cybertroubles » et de traiter les effets dévastateurs observés chez les personnes prédisposées. [less ▲]

Du corps à la parole

in Revue des Hôpitaux de Jour Psychiatriques et des Thérapies Institutionnelles (2011), 14

Through an interactive workshop called "the feelings through the senses", we are going to describe three successive stages allowing to tame the psychic experiences via the sensory channels, the hearing ... [more ▼]

Through an interactive workshop called "the feelings through the senses", we are going to describe three successive stages allowing to tame the psychic experiences via the sensory channels, the hearing then the sight, isolated artificially at first then gathered secondly. A work of verbalization in small groups is realized at the end of every session. To test the emotional changes among our patients benefiting from this institutional psychotherapy, we have been assessing, for two years, for every patient, at the beginning and the end of hospitalization, the following dimensions: awareness of feelings, representation of emotions, capacities of social regulation of the feelings. These first results are encouraging and testify that the therapeutic work in institution enhances transfer and counter- transfer movements by leading new corrective emotional experiences in a "secure" environment. The Day hospital, transformer of psychic experiences, proves to be a real process of particularly dynamic symbolization... [less ▲]

The National Lottery'protective measures

Conference (2010, October 12)