自由软件与心理咨询

Free software and psychological consultation

本文在广义上使用心理咨询一词 ,并以此从心理咨询特别是社会心理咨询的角度来分析 1983年在美国发起的自由软件运动与社会精神健康的关系。自由软件运动本身具有一种把公众作为操作对象的社会心理咨询活动的性质 ,这尤其体现在自由软件运动创始人理查德·斯多尔曼在世界各地进行的大量演讲和他撰写的大量网络文章中。通过这些作品 ,他揭示信息技术发展过程中的“心理疾病” ,这种心理疾病不能通过专业技术化的心理咨询来克服 。

We used the word “psychological consultation” in this article with its broad sense, and we analyse the connection between the Free Software Movement and social mental health based on a viewpoint of psychological consultation which is broadly understood. The FSM itself was provided with a nature of psychological consultation which takes the public as its patient. We can find the nature in a lot of speeches and articles by Richard Stallman, the initiater of FSM. Through out these works, Stallman has revealed the “psychological illness”engendered in the development of information technologies. These “psychological illness” could not be overcome by professional psychological consultation understood in narrow sense, but need to solve by revealing its social cause.