Abstract

GENEYRO SALDOMBIDE, Carolina  and  TIRADO SERRANO, Francisco. Biopsychiatry vs postpsychiatry: debates between neurobiological explanation and hermeneutical comprehension. Index Enferm [online]. 2016, vol.25, n.1-2, pp.98-102. ISSN 1699-5988.

Two paradigms of the contemporary psychiatry which maintain important differences from an epistemologycal point of view are discussed: biopsychiatry or biological psychiatry and postpsychiatry. From a critical perspective in psychiatry, mainly influenced by Michel Foucault's work in medicine, psychiatry and madness, we consider statements of a leading organization and two projects that take part in the mainstream biological psychiatry. Namely we examine annoucements of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), belonging to the National Institutes of Health (NIH); and statements from the most important projects for the brain study: "Human Brain Project" (HBP) and "Brain", devoloped by the European Union and the United States government respectively. Then we present the postpsychiatry proposal and finally we describe hermeneutics and the retrieval of the postpsychiatry perspective in the mental illness comprehension.

Keywords : Biopsychiatry; Postpsychiatry; Hermeneutics.