Kroll J
Am J Psychiatry. 1979 Sep;136(9):1135-8. doi: 10.1176/ajp.136.9.1135.
The author examines the philosophical foundations of French and American nosology with a view toward understanding the relatively minor influence of French psychiatry in America. Despite the excellence of its descriptive psychiatry, much of French nosological writing is based on philosophical viewpoints that are antithetical to the empirical and pragmatic traditions of American psychiatry. French nosology, which is closely involved with the metaphysical issues of existentialism, phenomenalism, and structuralism, reveals these interests in language and concepts that do not easily permit its hypotheses to be scientifically tested, a prerequisite for any American classification.
作者审视了法国和美国疾病分类学的哲学基础，旨在理解法国精神病学在美国影响力相对较小的原因。尽管法国描述性精神病学很出色，但许多法国疾病分类学著作是基于与美国精神病学的经验主义和实用主义传统相悖的哲学观点。与存在主义、现象主义和结构主义的形而上学问题紧密相关的法国疾病分类学，在语言和概念上体现出这些倾向，而这些语言和概念并不容易让其假设得到科学检验，而这是任何美国分类法的一个先决条件。
