Saturday, December 15, 2018

How to Peer Inside the Psyche of a Patient in Diagnosis and Treatment

We now have many sci/tech tools that make it possible to better "Peer Inside the Psyche of a Patient".

“Listen to your patient; he is telling you the diagnosis.”
William Osler

The goal of this is to find out what is going on Inside that might be causing/aggravating Physical/Mental Symptoms.

Of course, the patient must be willing to undergo such Invasive/Personal inspection, but some folks might be willing to do this in hopes of feeling better.  Some people with Chronic Conditions, such as Chronic Pain, seem to go to all lengths to find relief.

This new novel approach is actually "old medicine" going back centuries, but now we have new sci/tech tools.

Essentially, "Peering Inside the Psyche" of a person involves monitoring the following in Doctor-Patient Interviewing:
  • Recording and analyzing the Patient's answers to the Doctor's Questions.
  • Recording and analyzing when the Patient tells their Medical History and more importantly their Life Story.
  • Recording and analyzing the Patient's Body Language in Discussions.
  • Recording and analyzing the Patient's Physiological Signs in the Diagnosis and/or Treatment Process.  It is especially important to record/analyze Physiological Signs (Vital Signs) that relate to Emotional Distress (Stress) and/or Pain.
All of this sounds like Polygraphy or Lie Detection, doesn't it?  Yes, the same techniques are used as well as more.

To my knowledge, no one is trying to "Peer Inside the Psyche" of a willing patient, but I think it will come.

Perhaps the purpose of this article is to raise awareness of "what could be done" for chronically ill patients.

Here are some Sci/Tech Tools that might be used to "Peer Inside the Psyche":

Automatic Recognition of Facial Displays of Unfelt Emotions - arXiv

High-Speed Video System for Micro-Expression Detection and ...

Survey on Emotional Body Gesture Recognition - arXiv

Affective computing - Wikipedia

 

These examples show the Similarity between Polygraphy or Lie-Detection, Biofeedback, etc. 

Affective computing - Wikipedia

Biofeedback - Wikipedia

Neurofeedback - Wikipedia

Psychophysiology - Wikipedia

Affective science - Wikipedia Jump to Measuring emotions

 

Other References - 

Bio-feedback process and device for affecting the human psyche

A method for determining an individual's psyche type

Apparatus for capturing psycho-somatic stimuli induction the psyche.

Personality profiling system and methods for use in all types of communications …

Detection Of Disease Conditions And Comorbidities

Computer-aided psychological diagnosis and treatment system

Apparatus for processing psychological data and method of use thereof

WO/2013/042418 STRESS SENSITIVITY EVALUATION FORM AND PROGRAM

Method for diagnosing and correcting mental and emotional state " …

Method for diagnosing temperament type

Method of evaluating psychological personality profile

"indima apparatus" system, method and computer program product for …

Method of patient treatment

Automated questionnaire for assisting in the diagnosis and treatment of medical …

 

E-meter - Wikipedia

  - Yes, above is controversial, but please let's look at the sci/tech of this of this device and consider the Modern Applications.

 

Interfacing with the Doctor Within: "Patient Listener" - New Medical ...

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Here's one of the Search Strings I used  -  polygraphy OR lie-(detection OR detector) OR polygraph OR biofeedback) (emotion OR emotions OR affective) 

 

Interested? - More coming on this exciting topic in my upcoming books.  Stay tuned.

 

 

Disclaimer - Article is for information only and is not medical advice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





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