Psychopathology and control: The tight line between understanding and naming

<div class="page" title="Page 36"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>The issue discusses the problem of the radical difference between diagnosis in psychiatry and diagnosis in medicine. It is argued that the nosographic diagnosis door to call the patient who is captured in this new denomination going to organize a new life path. The life of the patient and his family is increasingly impoverished in a fate that will chronicity. Only a thorough understanding of psychopathology can give meaning to the phenomena in a weaving able to create symbolic links to the sites of fractures of the mental. It is narrated at length the history and treatment of a teenager. </span></p></div></div>