Thread by @awaisaftab

1/ "Whereas symptomatology is strictly illness oriented, psychopathology is also person oriented, since it attempts to describe the patient’s experience and her relationship to herself & to the world."

G. Stanghellini & Matthew Broome (@matthewrbroome)

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2/ "The patient is an active partner in the diagnostic process, capable of interpreting her own complaints. Symptoms are conceptualised as the outcome of a mediation between a vulnerable self and the sick person trying to cope with and make sense of her complaints."

3/ "The existing classifications of mental illnesses are merely provisional diagnostic conventions... if psychopathology is conflated with nosography, only those symptoms that are supposed to have diagnostic value will be investigated,...

4/ ... in a sort of nosography-focused twilight state, where we wear clinical blinkers structured by contemporary classification systems.... In psychopathology, what matters most is that the ‘chaos of phenomena’ should stand out in an evident way and in multiple connections."

5/ "[Phenomenological psychopathology] assumes that the primary object of psychiatry is the patient’s subjectivity, thus putting all its efforts into focusing on the patient’s state of mind as it is experienced and narrated by them." Stanghellini & Broome (@matthewrbroome)