Editorial: Historical Roots of Psychopathology

Frontiers in Psychology

Diogo Telles-Correia¹ 

关键词: psychopathology;    history of psychopathology;    philosophy of psychiatry;    symptoms;    mental disorders;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00905

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Mental illness and mental symptoms depend on a construction that results from the decisions of certain social agents, which, in a specific social and historical context, according to an epistemological framework (how symptoms and disorders are constructed and detected) and an ontological framework (how they are defined, what they consist of), identify the behaviors which make up a symptom or a disorder (Berrios, 2011). Only after these theoretical hypotheses of mental symptom and disorder have been outlined are the data which empirically validate them searched and found. Therefore, the objects of psychiatry (mental symptom and disorder) being the result of a social conjecture and a philosophical perspective rooted in a specific time, they should also be studied with elements from social and human sciences (history, sociology, philosophy) (Telles-Correia, 2015).

【 授权许可】

CC BY