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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSAXh1guI4s&feature=youtu.be
See the dossier about mental health in the latest issue of Manguinhos (Oct./Dec. 2016).
Tenório, Fernando. Psicanálise, configuração individualista de valores e ética do social. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Jun 2000, vol.7, no.1, p.117-134. ISSN 0104-5970
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
