Open AccessThe Epistemology of Psychiatry
Author(s) -
Germán E. Berríos,
Ivana Marková
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
estudos do século xx/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...