Rodrigues Adriano C T, Banzato Cláudio E M
Department of Psychiatry, Medical School, State University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
Psychopathology. 2006;39(6):296-302. doi: 10.1159/000095777. Epub 2006 Sep 13.
The delusional misidentification syndrome has lately been the object of lengthy psychopathological discussions. Controversies persist as to how best to define it, distinguish its subtypes and set their limits. Attempts to provide this syndrome with a better conceptual framework have usually relied on proposing new definitions and classifications. In this article, we suggest that some prevailing difficulties are basically related to two separate but intertwined issues: the self-reflexive property of the human mental functioning and the first-person linguistic expression of human experience. We argue that this discussion belongs to a broader context than the one it is usually referred to, as it deals with problems germane to conceptual psychopathological investigations in general. In that regard, DMS provides us with a very telling example, to the extent to which it has, at its core, to account for the puzzling phenomena of identity, which are particularly affected by cultural and linguistic variables.
妄想性错认综合征近来一直是冗长的精神病理学讨论的对象。关于如何最好地定义它、区分其亚型并设定其界限，争议仍然存在。为该综合征提供更好概念框架的尝试通常依赖于提出新的定义和分类。在本文中，我们认为一些普遍存在的困难基本上与两个既相互独立又相互交织的问题有关：人类心理功能的自我反思特性和人类经验的第一人称语言表达。我们认为，这场讨论所属的背景比通常提及的背景更广泛，因为它涉及一般概念性精神病理学研究相关的问题。在这方面，妄想性错认综合征为我们提供了一个非常生动的例子，因为它在核心层面必须解释身份认同的令人困惑的现象，而这些现象尤其受到文化和语言变量的影响。
