Thesaurus of information psychiatry

Thesaurus of information psychiatry

 

Authors

 

A.P. Kotsyubinsky

Federal State Budgetary Institution “V.M. Bekhterev National Medical Research Center for Psychiatry and Neurology” of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

D.A. Kotsyubinsky

Autonomous Non-Profit Organization "International Center for Social and Economic Research “Leontiev Center”", St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

 

https://doi.org/10.26617/1810-3111-2026-1(130)-37-51

 

Journal: Siberian Herald of Psychiatry and Addiction Psychiatry. 2026; 1 (130):  37-51.

 

Abstract

Currently, the impact of the Internet, social media, and digital technologies on the human psyche has reached a qualitatively new level. In this regard, a new direction has emerged within social psychiatry: information psychiatry, which studies the influence of digital and electronic network factors on the mental state of not only individuals, but also social groups and society in general. The aim of this study was to analyze the existing literature on this issue, aimed at compiling and thoroughly substantiating not only the conceptual but also the terminological basis of information psychiatry as an integral part of social psychiatry. The following terms are presented as the main: mental health of society, mental norm of society, stress resistance of society, mass vulnerability, anomy, mass mental epidemic, mass psychosis, induced psychosis. The proposed thesaurus of information psychiatry is aimed at unifying the ideas of various research groups about the boundaries and substantive side of this new direction in psychiatry.

 

Keywords: information psychiatry, social psychiatry, mental health of society, mental norm of society, stress resistance of society, mass vulnerability, anomie, mass mental epidemic, mass psychosis, induced psychosis.

 

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For citation: Kotsyubinsky A.P., Kotsyubinsky D.A. Thesaurus of information psychiatry. Siberian Herald of Psychiatry and Addiction Psychiatry.2026; 1 (130): 37-51. https://doi.org/10.26617/1810-3111-2026-1(130)-37-51

 

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