E therapies are going to replace out patient based psychiatric consultation-is it the way forward?

Abstract

E-therapy has been defined in various ways. One of the more comprehensive definition is ‘‘a licensed mental health care professional providing mental health services via email, video conferencing, virtual reality technology, chat technology or any combination of these’’.  It may be synchronous-taking place at the same time (like live chats) or can be asynchronous- taking place back and forth over a period of time (like over emails) or a combination of both.