Sutter J M, Huber J P, Luccioni H, Dufour H
Acta Psychiatr Belg. 1978 Jul-Aug;78(4):573-82.
The psychopathological scale of AMDP system is voluntary limited to descriptive aspects of psychopathology. If the term psychopathology could be considered identical to psychiatric semiology, the words signs and symptoms go above the descriptive stade: the greek name sumptôma contains sun (with) and piptein (appear), while the word sign is an intellectual deduction of observed symptoms. In the AMDP-3, the sense of evaluated symptoms results from the configurational approach, for example a factor analysis. The splitting of german psychopathological concepts in items and the evaluation of these items in relation to observable compounds bind to their configurational structure will, no doubt, permit to avoid the obstacle of a different conceptualisation of the same symptoms from one school to the other. Furthermore, the AMDP-3 scale and its manual constitute a remarkable teaching instrument for psychopathology, not always enough appreciated.
AMDP系统的精神病理学量表仅局限于精神病理学的描述性方面。如果精神病理学这个术语可以被认为等同于精神病学症状学，那么“体征”和“症状”这两个词就超出了描述阶段：希腊语单词sumptôma包含sun（与）和piptein（出现），而“体征”一词是对观察到的症状的一种理性推断。在AMDP - 3中，所评估症状的意义源于构型方法，例如因素分析。将德国精神病理学概念拆分为项目，并根据与可观察到的组合相关的构型结构对这些项目进行评估，无疑将有助于避免不同学派对于相同症状的不同概念化所带来的障碍。此外，AMDP - 3量表及其手册构成了一种卓越的精神病理学教学工具，但却并不总是得到充分重视。
