هنر درمانی مبتنی بر کامپیوتر با بیماران بستری در بیمارستان: افراد شیزوفرنیک حاد و مزمن و موارد بینابینی

During the last two to three decades, technology and somatic medicine have begun to work together more intensely. New technologies have found their place in internal medicine, especially on intensive care units, in surgery and related disciplines. In the field of psychiatry and psychotherapy most therapists are reluctant to admit technical tools into the therapy session (Fryrear & Corbit, 1992). They belong to a tradition which is not only skeptical about introducing technology, but also see it as impeding creativity or even as dehumanizing. However, the use of audiovi- sual techniques in psychiatry and psychotherapy has gone a step forward in the last two decades. Today we can observe a productive relationship between psy- chotherapy and the use of audiovisual equipment. Two examples are the documentation of psychiat- ric diseases by videotapes and also the use of video mirroring as an additional psychotherapeutic aid in the treatment of schizophrenic patients as well as with neurotic and personality disorders. This is a method we have been investigating for over a decade, as documented in papers and books (Hartwich & Lehmkuhl, 1979; Hartwich, 1993). The seeming con- tradiction between psychotherapy and technology has changed into a complementary relationship to enlarge in the future.