Body-Soul Map: An app for mental and physical psychiatric therapy

The patient's limited ability to express feelings during the therapy session results is an ineffective encounter in which the therapist receives partial information. The time between sessions can be used to allow the patients to convey the information they wants enabling them to formulate it into a description of their physical and mental condition. As body and mind should be represented simultaneously for optimal decisions we developed a patient app that collects the words, the physical-mental state before the meeting and present it to the therapist. The ongoing patient-therapist encounter enables the patients to express themselves beyond the clinic in their natural environment. “share feelings” pain frequency and type using a humanoid graphical form that represents the patient, intermediating communication may improves patient experience overcoming therapist-patient encounter barriers. The research performed at the Sheba Medical Center psychiatric clinic aims at collecting data for the development of an AI-based advisor for medication adjustment and treatment prioritization. It evaluates the contribution of a virtual persona to the quality of information available to the therapist and improvement of quality of care and examines the persona's role as a facilitator for the patients to express themselves. We will discuss the challenges in mental health treatment that can be overcome by using technologies like this and its relevance to other clinical condition (Chronic, COVID