HAS At a time when man has never communicated so much, he has never suffered so much from social isolation. With increasingly powerful communication tools, man has become a skillful, rapid, expert and efficient technician who focuses his attention on the growth of his tools and neglects his relational context and his fundamental human needs.
It has become a tool among tools, part of machines in a kind of Taylorism of communication. He didn’t isolate himself voluntarily, he built the prison that locks him up now, isolated by a kind of seduction, appropriation, materialism and this in a competitive system. It ceases to be by prioritizing having.
Dysfunctional belonging relationships in the couple, in the family, at work, toxic relationships, harassment, burnout, depression, suicides, schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive disorders (OCD) what we link to mental pathologies are very often, beyond the vulnerabilities of each, illnesses that settle and unfold in a relational dynamic with the cultural system, school, work and family.
Look for other causes and other avenues
The effects of confinement have shown us how much relationships are at the heart of mental health because, if man is a rational animal, he is above all a relational animal. The man of this beginning of XXIe century isolated itself and saw all the consequences of this isolation suffered: loss of bearings, addictive consumption… Quantity prevails over quality.
This spiral of isolation, carried away by the pandemic, confronts us with the observation of an explosion of cases of depression and suicide attempts with more than one in four French people showing signs of anxiety disorders according to Public health France in
study of October 2021. Faced with this sad observation, public policies are multiplying directives to the psychiatry sector at the end of their rope and resources. But wouldn’t the key to change making resilience possible be elsewhere?
Let’s take the posture of the systemicist and take a step aside… Our culture, our education have shaped a causal way of thinking. By seeking to know where a difficulty lies from a causal perspective such as in a medical diagnosis or in a legal action, we take the risk of isolating the problem, of medicalizing it, of judicializing it, of placing it in a silo discipline, and to end up placing it in a rigid perception impoverishing the modalities of a functional operative treatment.
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