As Arthur Schopenhauer said (1788-1860) “There are three steps in the revelation of any truth: first, it is ridiculed; in the second, resisted; in the third, it is considered self-evident”. Considering telepsychiatry and according to our experience, we have no doubts about that telepsychiatry is an adequate vehicle for mental health care that increases access to care and user satisfaction constituting an effective means of delivering mental health services to psychiatric outpatients living in remote areas with limited resources with clinical efficacy indistinguishable of the corresponding one to face-to-face psychiatric treatment. Nevertheless,. we had to face significant technical and interpersonal barriers and deeply embedded professional constructs about the nature and practice of therapeutic relationships were challenged. The lessons learned along our telepsychiatry experience will be presented with the aim that could be useful for future telepsychiatric developments.
This post was submitted by Prof. De Las Cuevas .
