
Digital Psychiatry
Case studies from Patient-Driven Innovations
- 1st Edition - March 1, 2026
- Latest edition
- Authors: Luis Sandoval, Martin Orr, Elizaveta Solomonova
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 0 6 7 1 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 0 6 7 2 - 0
Over the past two decades technology has begun to play an important role in medicine. The synergy of technology and psychiatry now called, telepsychiatry or digital psychiatry, has… Read more

- Discusses how telepsychiatry can be used in a private setting
- Demonstrates how technological devices such as video games and apps are used as treatment options
- Includes both successful and non-successful patient cases
- Provides both clinical and patient perspective towards treatment
1. History of Psychiatry and Telemedicine
2. Telemedicine approaches in psychiatric disorders
The Clinicians’ perspective using technological interventions in: o Depressiono Schizophreniao Autismo OCDo Anxietyo Cognitive Remediation
3. Using technology to treat mental health from the patients’ perspective Successful cases using Telepsychiatry apps:
Case of Mr. NBA: Treating schizophrenia using free mobile apps
Case of Mr. MG: Treating Social-cognition and Social anxiety in Schizoaffective and Autisms Spectrum Disorder using videogame parties’ forums
Case of Young AK and family: Communicating and understanding how to socialize with my kid with autism through scenes from children’s movies
4. The challenges of Telepsychiatry
Case of Mr. JT: Overcoming a fear of bugs using videos as a way to treat OCD
Case of Mr. JV: Improving cognitive functions using online cognitive apps and web games
Case of a Mental Health Institution’s app: High effort and technology but poor outcomes
5. Lessons and Discussion
6. Future innovations in Telepsychiatry
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: March 1, 2026
- Language: English
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Luis Sandoval
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Martin Orr
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Elizaveta Solomonova
Elizaveta Solomonova, Ph.D., is an interdisciplinary researcher in McGill University’s Neurophilosophy Lab, at the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry. Dr. Solomonova is interested in neuroscience and phenomenology of conscious experiences across the sleep and wake states, including dreaming, hallucinatory phenomena, parasomnias, and altered states of consciousness. She has extensive experience in research on dreams, sleep, memory consolidation, and meditation practices: she holds a Ph.D. from the University of Montreal in Psychiatry and Philosophy, and an MSc in Experimental Psychology. Dr. Solomonova is trained in cognitive neuroscience and in philosophy of mind, and is particularly interested in hybrid states of consciousness, where waking and dreaming boundaries are blurred. Her most recent projects are centred around questions of how the social world influences how and when people sleep, dream, and share experiences across cultures and social groups.