A deontological framework
at the heart of the design.
PSYNUM was designed according to the principles of clinical responsibility, scientific transparency and absolute respect for the patient's dignity. Artificial intelligence is conceived here as an instrument of decision support in mental health, never as a substitute for the practitioner's thinking, decision or expertise.
Methodological rigour and absolute protection of the patient.
Every feature of the platform meets a twofold imperative: the ethics of clinical assessment and the total confidentiality of patient data.
Respect for the person
Respect for the dignity, psychic integrity and singularity of the patient — preservation of human complexity in all circumstances.
Non-stigmatisation
Prohibition of any form of stigmatisation, discrimination or automated labelling based on a PSYNUM report.
Primacy of judgement
Primacy of clinical judgement over any algorithmic interpretation. The clinician remains the sole decision-maker for the diagnosis and the care plan.
Methodological transparency
Full traceability of the linguistic markers detected — every model output is understandable and justifiable.
Practitioner responsibility
The professional remains responsible for the use, presentation and interpretation of PSYNUM reports.
Support for reflection
All tools have been designed to support clinical reflection, not to produce automated diagnostic conclusions.
Absolute confidentiality by design.
No patient data — verbatim, clinical note or report — is retained, processed or transmitted to third parties. The texts submitted to the tools are never stored on external servers.
- Fully stateless operation: volatile-memory processing only.
- Automatic destruction of data at the end of every session.
- No patient data is used to retrain the models.
- Compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Patient informed consent before every use.
Before using PSYNUM tools on a verbatim or clinical note from an identifiable patient, the clinician confirms the patient's informed consent — covering their understanding of the operation, limits and purposes of the analysis.
Each tool comes with a professional notice describing its scientific bases, interpretive constraints and conditions of use. This procedure ensures the clarity of the relationship between technology and clinical practice, within a constant ethical framework.
An ethics of knowledge and prudence — a clinical, multilingual and ethical artificial intelligence.— Scientific commitment & responsibility