L’émersion de l’insoi nanopsychiatrique

Abstract

AimsThis article assesses how the birth of nanopsychiatry is based on new techniques and paradigms that challenge the difference between self and non-self, hitherto the criterion of personal identity and self-awareness. MethodsThe article is structured in four parts: 1. Posing the problem of self and non-self in the new nanotechnological context; 2. Current methodologies in nanotechnology; 3. Results in terms of capacity augmentation 4. Discussion of the production of a nanopsychiatric “insoi”. ResultsThe results show progress on the link between psychiatric disorders and nanotechnologies. DiscussionThe discussion focuses on the scope of the nanopsychiatric “insoi” and on changes in self-awareness in the face of emergent and novel productions in one's own living body. ConclusionThe conclusion plots out the limits of the nanopsychiatric “insoi”.