Is psychopathology a bit rusty? A critical essay

• DOI: 10.32388/v6d5ym
• Publication Date: 2023-02-06T15:09:26Z
• Authors: Przemysław Zakowicz

Current development of neurosciences seems to leave psychopathology out of the way. In comparison with other branches of medicine, psychiatry still discusses the point of terms, coined to describe mental phenomenology in past. Such situation resembles the status quo of medieval scholastics, where dialectic methods aiming to explain the nature were insufficient. In this brief report, author would like to present the currently used psychiatric vocabulary from the Baconian point of view. Using examples of different Baconian idols, author aimed to present semantic and methodological problems in psychopathology. The article consists an critical evaluation of hitherto diagnostic terminology and presents novel point of view for further descriptive psychopathology.