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The Epistemology of Psychiatry

Author(s) -

Germán E. Berríos,

Ivana S. Marková

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

revista estudos do século xx

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1647-8622

pISSN - 1645-3530

DOI - 10.14195/1647-8622_19_4

Subject(s) - foundation (evidence) , mythology , clinical psychiatry , epistemology , psychiatry , psychology , philosophy , history , political science , classics , law

Psychiatry (the old trade of ‘alienism’) is a new discipline. It was constructed during the 19th century under the aegis of medicine. Like all historical events, its foundation was assisted by contemporary assumptions, aspirations and a myth of origin. ‘Psychiatry’ presented itself as a branch of medicine seeking scientifically to explain the causes of objective phenomena and facts called ‘mental diseases’ (and on the basis of such new knowledge) to develop rational cures...

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