PERSON-CENTERED MEDICINE WITHIN PERSONALIZED MEDICINE: CRITICAL VIEWS FROM PHENOMENOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

Abstract

Personalized medicine (predictive medicine, e-health, big data…) moves forward quickly; social comments and expectations for this medicine move even more quickly. Even if it includes several levels of meanings, the concept of person makes one wait for personalized accompaniment, individual support while being cared for. What kind of tools does psychiatry develop in order to set a place for person-centered care within personalized medicine? Facing technical-scientific progress, we will answer this question from the contemporary critical attitude led by phenomenological psychiatry. Such an interrogation, with its epistemological and ethical parts, takes place in between knowing and doing, the know-how space unreachable to machine.