Department of Biomedical Sciences, University G. d'Annunzio, Chieti Scalo, Italy.
Curr Opin Psychiatry. 2009 Nov;22(6):559-64. doi: 10.1097/YCO.0b013e3283318e36.
The scope of the present review is to criticize the trivial meanings of 'psychopathology' and re-examine its technical meanings and the role that psychopathology as the discipline that studies abnormal mental phenomena can play in today's clinical practice and research, and in the conceptualization of mental disorders.
I will first describe and discuss the way the term 'psychopathology' is mainly used in current psychiatric literature. This meaning, I will argue, is trivial. Then, I will move on to its technical meanings, including three classic sub-areas: descriptive, clinical and structural psychopathology, stemming from the studies of Karl Jaspers, Kurt Schneider and the phenomenological movement in psychiatry.
I will address the meanings of the term 'psychopathology' in current literature and contrast it with its meanings in continental 20th century tradition. The relevance of the discipline of psychopathology for psychiatry is three-fold: it is the common language that allows psychiatrists to understand each other; it is the basis for diagnosis and classification; it makes an indispensable contribution to understanding the patients' personal experiences.
本综述的目的是批评“精神病理学”这个术语的琐碎含义，并重新审视其技术含义，以及作为研究异常心理现象的学科，精神病理学在当今临床实践和研究中的作用，以及在精神障碍概念化中的作用。
我将首先描述和讨论目前精神病学文献中“精神病理学”一词的主要用法。我认为，这种意义是琐碎的。然后，我将继续讨论其技术含义，包括三个经典的亚领域：描述性、临床和结构性精神病理学，源于卡尔·雅斯贝尔斯、库尔特·施奈德和精神病学中的现象学运动的研究。
我将探讨当前文献中“精神病理学”一词的含义，并将其与 20 世纪大陆传统中的含义进行对比。精神病理学这门学科与精神病学的相关性有三个方面：它是允许精神科医生相互理解的通用语言；它是诊断和分类的基础；它对理解患者的个人经历做出了不可或缺的贡献。
