Le numérique a progressivement infiltré tous les domaines de notre quotidien. La santé n’a pas échappé à l’arrivée des nouvelles technologies et a vu apparaître nombre de nouveaux dispositifs de soins, utilisant des objets connectés, des applications, ou l’intelligence artificielle. Aborder la question du numérique reste toutefois un sujet délicat tant il est évident que ce champ est large et en constante évolution. Pour autant, sous couvert de cette complexité, éviter de poser cette question conduit également à un écueil majeur. En effet, les nouvelles générations ont grandi avec ces technologies, et l’arrivée de ces générations dans les structures de soins impose de prendre en compte les réponses à apporter aux mutations induites par le numérique. En psychiatrie, cette question fait son apparition, notamment au travers des activités d’art-thérapie, ce d’autant plus que l’art a vu l’émergence au cours de ces dernières années d’un art numérique. Dans cet article, nous nous proposons de développer les enjeux autour du numérique dans le champ de la santé mentale, de décrire la révolution numérique dans l’art afin de discuter des possibles points de rencontre entre l’art-thérapie et les outils numériques en santé mentale.

Digital has gradually infiltrated all areas of our daily lives. Health and mental health have not escaped the arrival of new technologies and has seen many new devices of care, using connected objects, applications, or artificial intelligence. However, addressing the digital issue is a delicate subject as it is clear that this field is wide and constantly evolving. However, the new possibilities offered by digital are an incredible opportunity to modernize the therapeutic setting. Moreover, the arrival of the new generation which have grown with these digital technologies requires to consider the responses to be made to the changes induced by digital technology. One of the domains which has been used by psychiatric to care their patient for years was the art therapy. This field is interested in expression and creation as a possible source of recovery. And the question of digital technology in art therapy is all the more important than numeric has already been integrated in art through the concept of numeric art. Despite this observation it could be difficult to envisage therapeutic setting modification to incorporate digital field in art-therapy as it is also important to take account of pathological aspects. To address this issue, we propose to develop in this article the current knowledge about digital application in mental health. In this part we develop three paragraphs about the applications in psychiatry, the serious games and the virtual reality, and the devices online such as massive open online courses and social networks. We then propose to present the current status of numeric art with a presentation of the history of numeric art and some examples of this construct. And then we propose to discuss of the possible mutation in art therapy in touch with digitals mutations. This discussion implies to address the question of the therapeutic setting in art therapy and the general question of changes induces by digital in our thinking and habits. This discussion also proposes to develop concrete possibilities to set up these technologies in art therapy.