Subjectivity in clinical practice: on the origins of psychiatric semiology in early French alienism.
Hist Psychiatry
; 25(4): 459-67, 2014 Dec.
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ABSTRACT
The aim of this article is to contribute to the analysis of the origins of psychiatric semiology, which by emphasizing subjectivity in clinical practice, gave birth to psychopathology as the scientific and intellectual enterprise of alienism. In other words, beyond simple anatomical and clinical observation, there was an effort to 'listen to' and 'read' the patient's delirium. In essence, the basic thesis which this short paper seeks to defend is that, despite a growing anatomical and clinical mind-set and a clear interest in physically locating mental illness within the body, during the Romantic period, psychiatry was able to construct a semiology largely based on the experience of the ego, on the inner world of the individual. This makes it possible to establish, from a clinical perspective, that the birth of alienism - of psychiatry - must be situated within the framework of a modernity in which the culture of subjectivity was one of its most characteristic features.
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Asunto principal:
Psiquiatría
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Alucinaciones
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Trastornos Mentales
Tipo de estudio:
Diagnostic_studies
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Humans
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Hist Psychiatry
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2014
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Article