Abstract

MUZQUIZ JIMENEZ, Álvaro. The construction of psychopathology and psychiatric practice. Rev. Asoc. Esp. Neuropsiq. [online]. 2013, vol.33, n.119, pp.575-592. ISSN 2340-2733.  https://dx.doi.org/10.4321/S0211-57352013000300008.

Psychiatry seems condemned to a perpetual fragmentary theoretical approach. Historical, social, psychological and biological narratives or conventional pluralism -a blend of them all-, can only account for isolated and incomplete parts of a complex psychiatric reality. It is necessary to be able to analyze psychiatry in its entirety. To that end, in this paper psychopathology is investigated as a crossroad where these fragments are in an interwoven relationship. The main conclusion is that, in order to understand psychopathology and its objects properly, they must be considered connected with a practice determined by politics. Finally, some consequences for a theory of symptom individuation are drawn.

Keywords : psychopathology; practice; politics; ontology; epistemology.

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