The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into daily life has introduced unprecedented forms of human-machine interaction, prompting psychiatry to reconsider the boundaries between environment, cognition, and technology. This Viewpoint reviews the concept of "AI psychosis," which is a framework to understand how sustained engagement with conversational AI systems might trigger, amplify,...
This paper reviews the presence of psychotic features in the nonclinical population. The results of a literature review suggest that delusional and hallucinatory experiences are more common in the general population than we may think, and that there could well be a symptomatic continuum between people who have and people who have not been diagnosed with indisputable psychotic disorders. In the...
Can J Psychiatry. 2009;54(3): 137-139. The diagnostic entity of schizophrenia creates a loose boundary around a heterogeneous collection of interrelated and relatively distinct phenotypes. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)-V planning process is currently under way and it has once again ignited the debate about the boundaries of this diagnosis. One question concerns...
Dans le débat sur la décriminalisation du cannabis, ce sont les conséquences de la consommation de cette substance psychoactive qui interpellent les experts. Rarement s’interroge-t-on, toutefois, sur la nature de l’intoxication au cannabis. Or, un survol attentif de la littérature laisse entrevoir de multiples rapports entre les effets du cannabis et la phénoménologie de la schizophrénie....