February 2017
The paper Psychosis and schizophrenia: effects of changes in psychiatric classifications on clinical and theoretical approaches to mental illness, by Fernando Tenório, professor at the Psychology Department of PUC- Rio, discusses especially the weakening of the “psychosis” category.
Since the third revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III) published in 1980 by the American Psychiatric Association, the main categories of mental illness classification – psychosis, neurosis and perversion – were replaced by a more empirical diagnosis based on observable symptoms.
As the current pathological classifications prioritize a physicalist approach, conditions previously associated with subjectivity are being medicalized.
In this video (in Portuguese), Tenório explains the impacts of this changes in the treatment of mental disorders.
See the dossier about mental health in the latest issue of Manguinhos (Oct./Dec. 2016).
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Novella, Enric J. Viajes y redes profesionales en los orígenes del alienismo español. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Dic 2016, vol.23, no.4, p.1023-1040. ISSN 0104-5970
Huertas, Rafael. Las obsesiones antes de Freud: historia y clínica. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Dic 2014, vol.21, no.4, p.1397-1415. ISSN 0104-5970
Allevi, José Ignacio. Sociabilidades, redes y circulación de saberes en la conformación de un “ámbito psi” en la Argentina de entreguerras (Santa Fe, 1919-1943). Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Jun 2016, vol.23, no.2, p.543-550. ISSN 0104-5970
Tenório, Fernando. A reforma psiquiátrica brasileira, da década de 1980 aos dias atuais: história e conceitos. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Abr 2002, vol.9, no.1, p.25-59. ISSN 0104-5970
