Endogeno, psicogeno e organico: analisi storica e filosofica di una distinzione classica della psichiatria continentale
Journal title PSICOTERAPIA E SCIENZE UMANE
Author/s Massimiliano Aragona
Publishing Year 2009 Issue 2009/3
Language Italian Pages 22 P. 343-364 File size 140 KB
DOI 10.3280/PU2009-003004
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The classical distinction among endogenous, organic, and psychogenic conditions in continental psychiatry: a historical and philosophical analysis - The classical psychopathological distinction of endogenous, organic and psychogenic conditions is historically considered. In a first phase it was difficult to deal with the fundamental problem of causality. The following "ontological" phase (Tellenbach) tried to solve previous problems by means of a "positive" definition of the Endon, based on Heidegger’s ideas on human existence being thrown into the world (Geworfenheit). Being non-testable, it was not followed by scientific psychiatry. Finally, the phenomenal approach tried to overcome previous limits by means of a purely descriptive approach, based on the formal description of psychopathological phenomena disclosed in any of the three conditions considered. Nevertheless, it did not succeed completely because it reintroduced a less evident but still significant form of causality. On the basis of this analysis, the main elements that new ideas on this subject should consider are discussed.
KEY WORDS: psychopathology, phenomenology, philosophy, epistemology, history of psychiatry
Massimiliano Aragona, Endogeno, psicogeno e organico: analisi storica e filosofica di una distinzione classica della psichiatria continentale in "PSICOTERAPIA E SCIENZE UMANE" 3/2009, pp 343-364, DOI: 10.3280/PU2009-003004