The evolution of mental health care requires a new compass.

Is classical psychiatry still up to today's challenges?
‍The evolution of mental health care requires a new compass.

Psychiatry has gone through several transformations over time. What once started with exorcisms grew into a fully-fledged medical discipline in healthcare.

For decades, psychoanalytic approaches dominated the treatment process. With the advent of drugs that affect brain function, such as Prozac, the so-called chemical revolution began.
Today, medication and psychotherapy are still the standard treatment for mental problems.

The ever-growing waiting lists among psychiatrists and psychologists show how acute the need for psychological help is. Will the current approach remain sufficient? Especially when the exponential increase in mental illness among young people is taken into account.
It seems clear that something is fundamentally wrong in our Western society. What the exact causes are, however, remains difficult to explain unambiguously. However, it is time to thoroughly review the vision of mental health, and by extension, the entire field of psychiatry.

Technologies that objectively map the functioning of our nervous system, such as qEEG, heart coherence (HRV) and pupillometry, deserve a central and autonomous nervous system monitoring tool.

In that light, a new revolution is taking place: “neuromodulation”.
After the psychoanalytic and chemical revolutions, neuromodulation is the next major step in the evolution of psychiatry.
Based on objective measurements, it is possible to directly influence the functioning of the brain and the nervous system.
Although these methods prove clinically and scientifically valuable, they are still too often wrongly questioned due to a lack of knowledge.

Nevertheless, at BRAI3N, we consciously choose a different course.
We integrate modern neuroscientific insights into a caring, human approach.
Neuromodulation has proven to be a useful therapeutic method and can go perfectly with psychotherapy and/or medication. It is therefore not a competing therapy but an adjunctive therapy.

If psychiatry wants to prepare for the future and modernize, it is necessary to integrate modern neuroscientific insights into the clinical approach.

Every patient deserves access to the most advanced and humane care that neuroscience makes possible today.

by Jan Ost

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