Peters U H
Z Klin Psychol Psychother. 1978;26(1):5-22.
Structural psychopathology maintains that the psychiatrist finds himself in a situation similar to that of the literary critic. The objects of their critical analysis are marked by a high degree of linguistic complexity, reflecting social as well as personal interrelationships. The structural method which developed in the course of this century is thus applicable to psychopathological relationships, if careful attention is paid to their unigueness. The structural method is illustrated by a schizopasic text. Those typical stylistic and rhetorical structures which lead to the impression of schizophasia are isolated. The structural method can also be used to examine the pathogenesis of an illness or to extrapolate information from medical histories. Finally, through the analysis of the book "Mary Barnes, two accounts of a journey through madness" it can be shown how the structural method can illuminate critical problems of a literary science which are disguised as psychiatric ones.
结构精神病理学认为，精神科医生发现自己所处的情况与文学批评家类似。他们批判性分析的对象具有高度的语言复杂性，反映了社会以及个人的相互关系。因此，如果仔细关注其独特性，在本世纪发展起来的结构方法就适用于精神病理学关系。通过一篇精神分裂症患者的文本来说明结构方法。那些导致精神分裂症言语印象的典型文体和修辞结构被分离出来。结构方法还可用于研究疾病的发病机制或从病史中推断信息。最后，通过对《玛丽·巴恩斯：两段疯狂之旅》这本书的分析，可以表明结构方法如何能够阐明伪装成精神病学问题的文学科学的关键问题。
