Abstract:
Psychopathology is a broad and complex concept. In an attempt to encompass the diversity and differences inherent to this subject, this narrative review emphasizes concepts related to the origins and meanings attributed to mental disorders. The distinct conceptions of these sufferings result, throughout history, in the use of heterogeneous therapeutics. In this respect, different forms of addressing these concepts throughout the history are explored, as well as the consequences of these concepts on the treatment employed. Given the current return to the appreciation of etiological explanations that are organismic in nature and medicalization as the foremost therapy ahead of psychic pathologies, psychoanalysis is presented as a discipline that explains an important epistemological rupture and consequent diversity in the concept of psychopathology and its treatment.
Keywords:
psychopathology; mental disorders; psychoanalysis