Abstract:
The objective of this article is to present an interpretation, oriented by psychoanalysis, about malaise in the field of contemporary psychopathology. Finding biomarkers to explain human behavior and its deviations is a dream long mitigated by psychiatry that now receives new investment from the new strategic plan of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), that on one hand encourages the advancement of science, but on the other poses an organicist reductionism. Without taking the opposite position, that is, of a psychologism of mental disorders or denial of biological factors in psychopathology, this text discusses this topic indicating a clinical, ethical, and epistemological position in approaching mental suffering. We conclude with a contribution of psychoanalysis to the field of psychopathology and mental health practice.
Keywords:
psychopathology; psychiatry; psychoanalysis and organicism