Information metabolism is a psychological theory of interaction between biological organisms and their environment, developed by Polish psychiatrist Antoni Kępiński
Background
Antoni Kepinski (1918-1972) was a Polish psychiatrist and thinker who was recognized for his significant contributions to the philosophy of medicine and humanistic psychiatry. The most important concept in Kepinski’s work is his idea of “energetic informational metabolism”, bridging the disconnect between the subjective psychological experience of the human mind and the objective biological and thermodynamic processes in the universe. In other words, the human mind abides by the same laws that all other physical processes abide by. However, Kepinski developed this idea in reaction to the medical community developing terminology for mental illnesses which had yet to be substantiated in behavioral terms. He was not aware that it could also be applied to analytical psychology, in particular, Jung’s theory of psychological type.