[Prospects for general psychopathology in modern psychiatry].

The Author describes the interest and the meaning of General Psychopathology in today's Psychiatry. The Author defines the methodological aspects necessary in psychopathology as well as their gnoseological and formative value. The "-structural constants" defined in psychopathology appear irreplaceable in the basic aspects of psychotic mind models, and other dimensions of contemporary psychiatry cannot disregard them. The Author emphasise the risk of an inaccurate and irresponsibly exhaustive use of psychopathological categories in psychiatric practice. However it seems that a conscious exercise of psychopathological methods can avoid confusion about investigatory psychiatric research, and may help recognizing basic structures of psychotic experience. These structures are not only necessary in a diagnostic field, but also for a correct pharmacotherapeutical epproach.